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17-year-old from occupied Mariupol faces 20-year sentence on ‘treason’ charges for wanting to help Ukraine

It is worrying that the Russian FSB has only now reported the 17-year-old Ukrainian patriot’s ‘arrest, as he was clearly seized many months ago

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Prominent Crimean Tatar journalist and political scientist prosecuted for ‘extremism’ in an academic work

The occupation authorities were evidently looking for any pretext to harass Lenora Dyulber, presenter of the Crimean Tatar talk show Merkez and came up with two, each as preposterous as the other

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Worse than North Korea and plummeting. Russia hits new depths in Crimea, other occupied parts of Ukraine

Russia is quite openly using terror and repression in occupied Crimea to silence all voices of dissent and of Ukrainian identity with it likely that the situation is at least as bad on other occupied territory

• War crimes

Russia sentences Ukrainian pensioner to 12 years and forces him to ‘repent on video’ for supporting Ukraine

Sentences against Ukrainians accused essentially of patriotism are long and guaranteed, with ‘trials’ taking place in total secrecy

• War crimes

Ukrainian, abducted as a teenager from occupied Donbas in 2019, sentenced by Russian court to 22 years

Valery Zaitsev was just 19 when he was seized in occupied Donetsk oblast, together with his mother whom the same ‘court’ sentenced to 10 years

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

Ex-military and Ukrainian: No more needed for Russian ‘treason trials’ and massive sentences

Both Ruslan Chorny-Shvets and Serhiy Lykhomanov were seized over two years ago in occupied Sevastopol, with threats against Serhiy’s family used to force him to admit to surreal charges

• Access to information   • Research

When Information Starts Working on Its Own

On the role of information resources in the era of a new digital space and artificial intelligence reality: the example of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group’s websites.

• Voices of war

‘Bro-wolfieʼ: The story of a soldier who survived in Mariupol and rebuilt his life

For several years, he has been attending rallies for the liberation of prisoners of war every week. This man, who uses a wheelchair, brings joy to those around him through his constant jokes and by entertaining children. His distinctive appearance has made him a symbol at these events. “Bro-wolfie” reflects on the start of the war, the occupation of Mariupol, and life after losing both legs.

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‘Russian world’ in occupied Luhansk oblast: no heating and deliberately cut off from mobile telephones and Internet

Cities that Russia relentlessly bombed in 2022 remain in a dire state, with Russia having even stopped making the propaganda videos where they’d claim credit for renovations carried before the invasion

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

Desperate plea from Russian prison: Ukrainian political prisoners need to be freed now, not after 'peace deal'

Iryna Danilovych, human rights defender, journalist and Crimean political prisoner, is not alone in stressing that the release of political prisoners, abducted civilians and POWs cannot be held hostage to other negotiations

• Voices of war

The Woman Who Didn’t Break. Part Two

We continue the story of Larysa Fesenko, the director of the Lesnastinkovsky Lyceum, who refused to teach her children under Russian flags and for this was imprisoned for 45 days in a Russian torture chamber.

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Monstrous 27-year sentence against Ukrainian civilian abducted from Russian-occupied Melitopol

The aggressor state is claiming that legitimate attacks on its illegal officials, including collaborators, on occupied territory are ‘acts of terrorism’ and then staging show trials with the outcome predetermined