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The prize is awarded annually by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for outstanding achievements in human rights protection.
• Voices of war • Interview
Since the beginning of the war, volunteer doctors of the FRIDA organization have been working free of charge in the frontline territories. For a year and a half, they managed to assist thousands of civilians. In this interview, doctors talk about their work in Bakhmut and other hot spots, the people they saved, and rethinking their inner values.
The death on 6 September of Ihor Kozlovskyy is a terrible loss for Ukraine and for all of us
• War crimes
On 28 August, the human rights initiative T4P launched its submission to the International Criminal Court, detailing the acts of genocide committed by Russia in and around the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
Released hostages have given detailed accounts of the savage torture used to extract videoed ‘confessions’. There is nothing to suggest that any of this has now changed.
Paintings by the artist Matvii Vaisberg became illustrations for the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group’s new book about Mariupol. He says that the war was the most productive period for him, complains about the uglification of urban space, and believes we should do more to promote contemporary Ukrainian art worldwide.
• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Although Russia’s offensive against the Crimean Tatar people had begun soon after its invasion of Crimea, the revenge 'trial' of Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyal and the mass detentions uunleashed in September 2021 were on a dangerously new scale.
Moscow knows very well that Ukrainians in occupied Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts hate them and is escalating measures to try to brainwash young people and terrorize their parents
Yurii Serohin is a resident of Dmytrivka in the Kyev Region. The beginning of the war found him at work in Kyiv. It took him two days to return to his native village on foot, and when he arrived, it was occupied. An artillery shell destroyed his house and all his property.
Russia hopes to claim ‘legitimacy’ for its armed invasion and annexation of Ukrainian territory by staging door-to-door ‘elections’ ‘with Russian soldiers providing the armed ‘incentive’
Oleksandr Pohorielov has been held hostage in the Russian proxy ‘Donetsk republic’ since November 2017 yet Russia is now putting him on ‘trial’, although it may well be behind the two prominent militant killings
• Civic society
Speech in Oslo on August 31, 2023 at the Nobel Peace Conference: Human Rights Heroes.