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Ukrainian political prisoner hospitalized after 9 years of Russian brutal torment

66-year-old Viktor Shur has served nine of the twelve year sentence that Russia imposed on grotesque ‘spying charges’ over a photo of cows grazing at a disused aerodrome

‘War is Death’: a Digest of Russian Protests

At least 17 murderers were pardoned in the Russian Federation for participating in the war. Among them, for example, Sergey Khadzhikurbanov, convicted of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. Meanwhile, the artist Sasha Skochylenko was sentenced to seven years in prison for anti-war price tags.

Russia is holding around four thousand Ukrainian civilians prisoner, torturing most of them

Both Ukrainian human rights groups and UN monitors have found that Russia is torturing around 90% of all Ukrainians held prisoner

Illegal Russian occupation ‘court’ sentences Ukrainian veteran to 13 years on grotesque ‘spying’ charges

54-year-old Oleksandr Zarivny was held for almost ten months before his family even learned of his whereabouts.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

”I’m no criminal’. Ukrainian artist sentenced to 15 years for protesting Russia's war against Ukraine refuses to wear prison uniform

“Russian law gives shorter sentences even for murder, and I spoke out against murder.” - Bohdan Ziza

• Voices of war • Interview

Buried alive — memories of a writer from Borodianka

Valentyna Lysenko is a writer who has lived almost her entire life in Borodianka, in the Kyiv Region. Together with her family, she endured several air raids and miraculously survived. The woman recalls how people in the basement of a destroyed house nearby begged for help for five days, but the Russians forbade saving them.

• The right to life • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia refuses critically ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner vital heart medication

Russia is flouting a UN Committee against Torture order regarding its imprisonment of Amet Suleimanov and effective torture of the Crimean Tatar civic journalist imprisoned on politically motivated charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Chilling déjà vu as Russia uses Crimean SMERSH to hunt down supporters of Ukraine in occupied Crimea

Ukrainians are terrorised or tortured into reading out ‘apologies’ for demonstrating a pro-Ukrainian position or opposing Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine

Russia claims defending Ukraine is ‘international terrorism’ and sentences abducted Kherson man to 12 years

"A crime was indeed committed in Kherson, but not by me, a citizen of Ukraine who was defending his country, but by the Russian soldiers who abducted and tortured me" - Pavlo Zaporozhets

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.

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'

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