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• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Armed searches and surreal charges against Crimean Tatar Imam for leading prayers in Russian-occupied Crimea

Two families were subjected to armed intrusions with Russia's so-called 'centre for countering extremism' hunting down only 'prohibited literature' before taking local Imam Ismail Yurdamov away

• Events

War against Independent Culture: a Digest of Russian Protests

On 21 November, the Voronezh Chamber Theatre fired its director Mikhail Bychkov for his anti-war stance. Mikhail Bychkov is one of the founders of the Voronezh Chamber Theatre.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Bodies were lying in the street. Neighbours covered them with blankets’

“The bus stop was crushed like a tin can. Concrete slabs flew into the neighbouring street, and shrapnel damaged houses and windows. Imagine the force of the rocket strike,” said a resident of Lysychansk (town in Luhansk Region).

• The right to life

Ukrainian prisoner dies after savage beating by prison staff and refusal to provide medical care

Serhiy Trotsko died because Ukraine’s penitentiary service, even its medics preferred to watch him die than to tell the truth about the torture he had been subjected to

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘People were buried near the hospital’

Tetiana Solohub is a nurse at the Borodianka hospital in the Kyiv Region. She remembers how people buried the dead near the hospital, how the apartment caught fire, and how she ran home past Russian tanks that were shooting at the entrances. Tatiana has nothing left. She continues to work and save money to improve her life.

• War crimes

Russia is hiding renowned Ukrainian POW & rights activist Maksym Butkevych in occupied Luhansk oblast

Our struggle is being waged for human rights, for those democratic values that are lacking in the Russian Federation and which the enemy is trying to destroy in us - Maksym Butkevych

• War crimes

Russia destroys almost all Ukrainian literature in occupied Donbas, calling it ‘extremist’

Russia’s attempts to outlaw Ukrainian history, literature on occupied territory is further evidence of its genocidal aim to destroy all that represents Ukraine and Ukrainian identity

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘People came to get some food and were deliberately shot at’

“The destruction was catastrophic. Houses, shops — everything was destroyed. The Lysychansk Regional Children's Hospital was shelled. Children were evacuated, but neither the hospital nor the ambulance worked” — Lysychansk (town in Luhansk Region) was already under Russian occupation in 2014 and is now experiencing the horrors of the “Russian world” once again.

• Politics

Arm Ukraine! An Open Letter From Human Rights Defenders To The Governments And Civil Societies Of Free And Democratic Nations

Vienna, 10 December 2023 — Numerous human rights activists, some long active in the former Soviet Union, have signed an open letter urging free and democratic nations to provide Ukraine with military assistance it needs to resist Russian aggression.

• War crimes

Finland refuses to extradite Russian neo-Nazi Rusich fighter to Ukraine to face war crimes trial

The arguments can certainly not be dismissed, however such rulings make it impossible for Ukraine to bring neo-Nazi mercenaries like Yan Petrovsky to justice for their direct role in Russia’s full-scale war of aggression

• Events

Fears for the life of Alexei Gorinov, serving 7-year sentence for telling the truth about Russia’s war against Ukraine

Alexei Gorinov has been savagely punished for condemning Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, yet the authorities have now concocted new, absurd, charges of ‘justifying terrorism’

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Two enemy shells destroyed my house’

Maiia Mykytenko lived in the Kyiv Region in the village of Borodianka with her husband and two daughters. During enemy bombing, she and her neighbors hid in the basement. In the end, the family evacuated, and when Maiia returned, she found the apartment destroyed. Now, the family lives in a small room in a modular town.

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