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• Freedom of expression

‘Ukraine is not Russia’: Judge expresses opposing view over pensioner’s prison sentence for a ‘like’

Arkady Bushchenko, a Supreme Court judge, has issued an opposing view after the cassation court upheld a prison sentence against a 70-year-old pensioner for ‘liking’ a post about a Russian military pilot

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

Crimean Solidarity civic journalist Rustem Sheikhaliev denied urgently needed medical care in rat-infested Russian prison

Crimean Solidarity civic journalist Rustem Sheikhaliev may well be suffering from a life-threatening condition with the same notorious prison that helped torture political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov to death refusing to provide any treatment

• Publicistics

A Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group successful action in 1991

A rare human rights story in which all sides won.

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

Russia raids Jehovah’s Witnesses in occupied Mariupol, claiming they ‘finance Ukraine’s Armed Forces’

It was always a matter of time before Russia began its armed raids and arrests of peaceful worshippers on any occupied Ukrainian territory, however the added charges are especially cynical

Ukrainian veteran sentenced to six years in Russia for 'a crime of a theoretical nature' - defending Ukraine in 2016

The charges against Volodymyr Linnyk could not have been more surreal in their lawlessness and sheer cynicism

Ukraine passes life sentence on Russian soldier videoed killing Ukrainian civilians near Bucha

It was a war crime witnessed, on video footage, broadcast throughout the world, and even if Russia refuses to extradite such war criminals, the sentences are important for holding the aggressor state to account.

Russia’s ruling party makes food aid dependent on ‘support for Putin’ in occupied Ukraine

Russian-installed occupation ‘administrations’ have instructions on obtaining ‘mass support’ for Putin and Russian in the upcoming fake ‘elections’ illegally held on occupied territory

• Voices of war • Interview

How does the European network help Ukrainian prisoners?

Shelling of prisons, lengthy consideration of the case, occupation, and even mobilization into the Russian army — tens of thousands of Ukrainian prisoners faced these and other problems because of the war. The Advocacy Director, Hugues de Suremain, talks about the work of the European Prison Litigation Network (EPLN).

Russians demanded ransom from 18-year-old Ukrainian POW’s mother as ‘reason’ to not kill him

Oleksiy Novikov was just 18 when seized by the Russian invaders of his native Mariupol. He remains imprisoned, with the Russians blocking any access to him, or other Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages

Putin grants Russian citizenship to suspected Bosnian Serb war criminal, pardons serial killer to fight against Ukraine

Putin’s contempt for international law is nothing new, but his decisions on granting citizenship and pardons to men either accused with strong grounds of atrocities or convicted are still staggering

• Civic society

Referral network. Design and functioning

Four Ukrainian NGOs—Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG), Blue Bird (Kyiv), Sich (Dnipro), and Forpost (Dnipro)—together with the Danish Institute Against Torture DIGNITY are implementing a three-year-long project to provide psychological, legal, charitable, medical, and other kinds of assistance to civilian victims of war.

Children illegally taken from Russian-occupied Ukraine to ‘train’ with army in Belarus

The Lukashenka regime is actively collaborating with Russia in illegally deporting Ukrainian children and subjecting them to so-called ‘re-education’ and, often, military training

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