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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Just not in the belly: if they hit me, at least the child will be saved’

Oleksandra lived in the Mykolaiv region. By 24 February, she was 32 weeks pregnant. Together with her husband, they moved to the hospital where they worked, but the Russians shelled it too. The woman with the baby was forced to go down to the basement 12 times only 36 hours after giving birth.

• War crimes

Torture in Russian-occupied Ukraine was deliberate and increasingly systematic, with many civilians tortured to death

The body exhumed last week in Kherson oblast was one of many civlians seized and tortured, some to death, while Kherson was under Russan occupation

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Arrested for protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine, sentenced to 10 years for ‘sabotage’

The emergence of ‘sabotage’ charges long after Ihor Kupich was arrested is just one of many reasons for deep scepticism about his ‘trial’

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Russian soldiers stopped the car with bread, threw the bread out and ran over it with their car. So that people would have nothing to eat’

A resident from Kherson tells how the city lived during the first days of the Russian occupation.

• War crimes

Russian citizenship or your life. How Moscow prepares for fake elections in occupied parts of Ukraine

Russia has yet again hit new depths, and is forcing Ukrainians to take Russian citizenship or risk losing vital medication

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

New charges against 64-year-old Oleh Prykhodko, imprisoned for opposing Russia’s occupation of Crimea

After openly fabricating absurd charges against Oleh Prykhodko back in 2019, Russia is now preparing new charges in order to imprison him for even longer

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

Russia sentences four Crimean Tatar civic activists to 53 years for ‘dissident views’

Seven years for murder in Russian-occupied Crimea, 17 years for practising your faith and showing solidarity with Russia's ever-mounting number of political prisoners

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Children, I won’t be able to teach the lesson because the war has started’

Oksana is a teacher of Russian language and literature. When Mariupol was shelled, she felt as if her heart was turning into a small bird. It was painful to look at the blackened houses and the faces of the neighbors that faded from the war and seemed to have been erased.

• War crimes

Russians abduct and doubtless torture Ukrainian journalist and her husband in occupied Melitopol

Iryna and Oleksandr Levchenko are both in their sixties, but there are no grounds for believing that this would stop the Russians from using torture to extract insane ‘confessions’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Russia sentences human rights defender to 14 years for helping political prisoners seek justice from ECHR

Russia has reached “a new level of lawlessness” with its imprisonment of human rights defender Bakhrom Khamroev, with sinister methods that could well be used in occupied Crimea

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar human rights defender charged with 'discrediting' the Russian invaders on Facebook

Abdureshit Dzhepparov is accused of ‘discrediting the Russian armed forces’ over material that had nothing to do with him, as well as with ‘abusing freedom of mass information’ in occupied Crimea where Russia has eliminated all such freedom

• War crimes

Russia imposes jail or fines for correct maps of Ukraine claiming they 'violate its territorial integrity'

Russia’s State Duma has adopted a bill which envisages jail for up to 15 days or massive fines (up to one million roubles) for maps which correctly show Crimea or other occupied Ukrainian territory as part of Ukraine