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Russia's youngest Ukrainian political prisoner charged with ‘terrorism’ over social media reposts made by the FSB after his arrest

20-year-old Ilya Hibeskul has become Russia’s youngest Ukrainian political prisoner probably because he had not taken Russian citizenship and was trying to leave for Poland

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

Court in Russia reduces charge against Crimean Tatar political prisoner but retains appalling sentence

The sentence against Ernes Seitosmanov should have been overturned altogether, but this was a political trial, and the ‘judges’ lacked the courage to do more than make a minimal reduction

• Voices of war • Interview

‘He called to set Kremlin on fire,’ — theater director was accused of terrorism for a chewing gum wrapper

Anatolii Levchenko is a well-known theater director in Mariupol. On 20 May 2022, the occupiers arrested him for his pro-Ukrainian views. The man was accused of inciting hatred, extremism, and terrorism, and even calling for the Kremlin arson because he posted on Facebook a chewing gum wrapper, “Love is...”.

Abducted RIA-Melitopol and Melitopol is Ukraine Telegram administrators tortured for Russian propaganda ‘blockbuster’

Five young Telegram channel administrators have been held in captivity for over two months, and clearly tortured into providing Russia’s later propaganda attempt to combat Ukrainian resistance in occupied Melitopol

• Voices of war • Interview

‘It feels like nothing can be put right,’ — Iryna Marchenko, Zdvyzhivka

Iryna Marchenko is a medical worker. The consequences of the Russian occupation did not pass without a trace for her. She admits she still experiences fear, is afraid of loud sounds, and cannot listen to music with headphones because she needs to hear what is happening around her. The woman complains that no one is in a hurry to restore houses in the village. Where it is broken, it remains broken.

Nine members of a family murdered in occupied Volnovakha after conflict with Russian soldiers

It is believed that Russian soldiers killed the nine members of one family, including two small children, after the children’s father refused to hand over the family’s home

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian jailed for a year in occupied Crimea for 'discrediting Russia's army'

Dmytro Kozlia has been imprisoned since July 2023, after being violently detained over comments deemed to ‘discredit the Russian armed forces’

• Voices of war • Interview

‘They dropped a bomb on a house’

A resident of the village of Horenka describes the horrors of the war and her attitude towards the Russians.

At least 89 civilians abducted from occupied Ukraine since 2022 charged by aggressor state with 'terrorism'

Russia had long included many Ukrainian political prisoners on its notorious list of extremists and terrorists’ but since February 2022 it has begun bringing grotesque ‘terrorism’ charges against civilians abducted from newly occupied Ukrainian territory

New attempt to imprison Memorial Head for ‘disrupting civil society’ by condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine

As Oleg Orlov notes, the prosecutor’s office have themselves exposed the political nature of this ‘trial’, by claiming that the 70-year-old should be “isolated from society” for three years for criticising the regime

• Voices of war • Interview

‘I see no path to reconciliation until evil is called evil’

The mass grave at the Temple of St. Andrii the First-Called in Bucha became the last refuge for Ukrainians who suffered from Russian aggression. Currently, an installation on the temple territory has the names of about 500 innocent people killed. How do we overcome discord and hatred? Is it possible to overcome them? We talk with the rector of the temple — Archpriest Andrii Halavin.

Russia drops all pretence in ‘trial’ of Ukrainian hostages imprisoned since 2018 in occupied Donbas

For years, Russia claimed not to wield any control over its proxy Donetsk ‘republic’, yet it is now staging a fake ‘trial’ under its own legislation, of three of that fake ‘republic’s’ civilian hostages

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