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55-year-old from Russian-occupied Skadovsk sentenced to 12 years for supporting Ukraine

Natalia Povietkina is one of almost two thousand civilians effectively abducted since Russia's invasion of parts of Kherson oblast. Some have been tortured but then released. some were tortured to death and many are imprisoned on grotesque charges

Children abducted from occupied Ukraine 'offered' on state adoption site in Russia

The new study, which proves the lie to Russia’s denial that it is permanently deporting Ukrainian children comes soon after a UN Commission report identified such acts as both war crimes and crimes against humanity

Putin rubberstamped indefinite imprisonment without charges for opposing Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

The secret ‘decision’ allowing enforcement bodies to abduct and hold people incommunicado was issued just two weeks after the full-scale invasion began

Berdiansk pastor and volunteer sentenced by the Russians to 22 years for fictitious 'act of sabotage'

Victor Bondarenko is not receiving medical treatment for several serious conditions and his daughter warns that each day in Russian captivity is jeopardizing her father's life

Russian occupation ‘court’ passes massive sentences in bulk for donations to Ukraine’s defenders

Any article of Russia’s criminal code will do since the real ‘crime’ against all the Ukrainians sentenced to 12, 13 or even 17 years, is that of patriotism and support for their own Ukrainian Armed Forces

• Women’s rights • War crimes

Ukrainian Women in Captivity: Thoughts about Their Families Help Them to Survive

Hundreds of Ukrainian women are in Russian captivity. We spoke with the head of the Kharkiv office of the KHPG, Tamila Bespala, about the conditions in which the Russians are holding female prisoners and what help they need after returning home.

Brutal Russian reprisals against young student sentenced to 9 years for her pro-Ukrainian position

Yulia Sokolova was just 17 when the Russian invaders first seized her and then subjected her to daily 'interrogations', before the staged 'trial' with possibly no hearings, and conviction guaranteed

Russian invaders sentence Tetiana Deviatkina to 6 years for criticizing them on social media

Tetiana Deviatkina, who has a young daughter,, and Victor Voloshchuk are facing long sentences for expressing opposition to Russian occupation on social media

• Civic society

On the designation of “Memorial” as an extremist organisation. Statement by the Council of the Memorial HRDC

It cannot be ruled out that Putin's repressive regime may now target supporters and participants of various Memorial organisations.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s FSB report the ‘arrest’ of a young mother 18 months after they abducted her in occupied Crimea

The videoed 'confession' was doubtless extracted, almost certainly through torture or threats, during the 15 months when Sakha Manhubi was held incommunicado in an FSB-controlled prison

Russia’s supreme court finds Ukrainian guilty of ‘international terrorism’ for opposing invaders

An invading army abducted Vitaliy Rastorhuev and Volodymyr Kryvtsun in July 2022, holding them incommunicado and likely torturing them until the end of December that year

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Maryna Ryff disappears in Russian-occupied Crimea after refusing to hide her pro-Ukrainian position

Russia increasingly resorts to abductions with Maryna Ryff’s disappearance reported as two other Ukrainian women, imprisoned for 18 months, were finally ‘found’ in Russian captivity

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