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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean artist Bohdan Ziza's 15-year ‘terrorism’ sentence for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Bohdan Ziza has been described as “a symbol of pro-Ukrainian protest in occupied Crimea”, with Russia’s use of ‘terrorism’ charges in reprisal for his courage and refusal to be cowered into silence

• War crimes

UN documents Russian rape, torture, indiscriminate bombing of civilians and other war crimes in Ukraine

The UN Commission established appalling crimes, such as the repeated beating and rape of an 83-year-old woman in front of her disabled husband and the killing of a couple who had reported the wife's rape by Russian soldiers

• War crimes   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia opens third prison in occupied Crimea to hold political prisoners and civilian hostages abducted from mainland Ukraine

Russia is continuing to seize and torture civilians in all parts of Ukraine that fall under its occupation, with many hostages held for over a year without any charges being laid

• Events

Imprisoned Russian poet Alexander Byvshev charged with ‘calls to terrorism’ for poem condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine

Alexander Byvshev has refused to be silent about Russia’s aggression despite persecution since 2014. He is now, however, facing a likely long term of imprisonment for no more than naming Russia’s war crimes

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘With one strike, the plane destroyed six houses...’

Olena Mishchenko is a resident of the Korolivka village in the Kyiv Region. The woman survived bombings, shelling, and murders of loved ones. The Russians destroyed Olena’s house, and she had to bury the dead in her yard.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia seeks to strip a fourth lawyer of his licence after jailing him for defending Ukrainian political prisoners

Independent lawyers have long been 'the enemy' of the Russian occupation regime for their determination to properly defend political prisoners and Ukrainians abducted from parts of mainland Ukraine temporarily under Russian occupation

• The right to life   • Human Rights Violations associated with EuroMaidan

First sentences in Ukraine over mass murder of Maidan activists

The prosecutor has already announced that he will be appealing against the startling verdicts and sentences

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I still have terrible dreams,’ — Bucha City Council Manager

Even now, it is impossible to talk about the atrocities of the Russian military in Bucha without tears. Dmytro Hapchenko, the manager of the affairs of the Bucha City Council, remained in the city throughout the occupation. In an interview with KHPG, he shares his memories and talks about what has been done to return to the townspeople at least a little peace and confidence in the future.

• War crimes

Russia forced to close school in occupied Kherson oblast for lack of teachers willing to collaborate

Russia abducted school directors, threatened to take children from their parents and tried other methods of coercion, but has consistently had difficulty in foisting its propaganda on Kherson oblast schools

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Prominent lawyer defending Ukrainian political prisoners jailed in Russian-occupied Crimea

This is the latest in a number of attacks against courageous lawyers who are not afraid to represent Russia’s Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

• War crimes

Russia stages ‘trial’ of young Ukrainians abducted and tortured into ‘confessing’ to terrorism

There is every reason to believe that Roman Zarubaiev and Artur Nesterenko are illegally held incommunicado and deprived of independent lawyers

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

Russia sentences Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses to long terms of imprisonment for refusing to renounce their faith

It was claimed that Volodymyr Maladyka, Volodymyr Sakada and Yevhen Zhukov 'had committed a grave crime against the constitutional order and the security of the state” by practising their faith