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Imprisoned Russian historian of the Soviet Terror Yury Dmitriev recognized as New Righteous of the Nations

Russia’s attempt to mask its persecution of Yury Dmitriev and attack on Memorial behind scurrilous criminal charges has failed, as demonstrated by this honour and the award for an important film on ‘the Dmitriev Affair’

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘People were sitting without a piece of bread; everyone was afraid to get near here’

Vitalii Koretskyi is a resident of the Kopyliv village in the Kyiv Region. He says that he mainly saw Buryats in the village. His neighbor died when, out of desperation, he tried to drive out through a mined field, and his nephew and friend were found shot with their hands tied.

• War crimes

Russian invaders torture former Ukrainian defender to death in occupied Kherson oblast

Although it took the Russians a week to admit Ruslan Rusnak's death, it is likely that he died, as the result of torture, within hours of being seized and 'interrogated'

• Voices of war   • Interview

A Russian shot at me from a helicopter — Stepan Boiarchuk, Zahaltsi village

The tiles in Stepan’s yard are riddled with bullet marks left by the Russian helicopter pilot. His property burned to the ground. Fortunately, the dog managed to survive the terrible burns. The Russians tortured his neighbor, Hryhorii, and eventually killed him, as well as two peaceful women who simply ran down the street.

• War crimes

Russian invaders vandalize and plunder remembrance of Holodomor in occupied Ukraine

The invaders have destroyed more monuments to the victims of Holodomor, with this part of Russia’s aggressive attempts to eradicate all that is Ukrainian on parts of Ukraine presently under its occupation

• War crimes

Show trial begins in Russia of 25-year-old Iryna Navalna seized in Mariupol and tortured because of her name

The ‘irrefutable proof’ against the young woman includes a ‘confession’ almost certainly extracted through torture, her Ukrainian POW stepfather and the fact that she has the same surname as one of the Kremlin’s main political prisoners

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

Russia sentences Crimean Tatar to over ten years on ‘terrorism’ charges for religious discussion in 2015

All of those 'judges' implicated in the trial and sentences against Ametkhan Abdulvapov were aware that he had committed now crime and should be held to account

• War crimes

First huge sentence in Russia’s cynical ‘international terrorism trials’ of Ukrainians abducted from illegally occupied Ukraine

It is hard to imagine anything more lawless than invading a country and torturing Ukrainian civilians into ‘admitting’ to acts of ‘international terrorism’

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

New armed terror against independent religious community in Russian-occupied Crimea

The Russian occupation authorities have jailed three Crimean Tatars linked with the 'Alushta' religious community which has long been under attack for its religious independence

• War crimes

Ukrainian children abducted to Russia forced to glorify convicted criminals pardoned for fighting against Ukraine

Russia is continuing to abduct and brainwash Ukrainian children despite the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants against Putin and his ‘children’s ombudsperson’ Maria Lvova-Belova over these likely war crimes

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Chilling silence after 22-year-old Crimean Tatar abducted by Russian FSB and vanishes

Fakhod Soliev disappeared three weeks ago, is almost certain in FSB custody, yet there is nothing to suggest that any criminal investigation has been initiated

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

Russian justice: murderers pardoned for killing Ukrainians, Crimean Tatas sentenced to 17 years for defending political prisoners

The clear message in occupied Crimea that opposition to occupation or human rights activities can get you horrific prison sentences, is now accompanied by another: kill for the Russian state, and all real crimes will be wiped clean