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

Russia upholds death sentences against two Crimean Tatar political prisoners after killing one of them

For monstrous reasons, it was probably predictable that the 13-year sentence against the late Dzhemil Gafarov would be upheld, but the ‘judges’ still had the opportunity to save the life of 63-year-old Servet Gaziev, and failed to take it

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘It was clear that the city was simply being destroyed’ — Pavlo Ponomarenko, Mariupol

Pavlo Ponomarenko is an engineer by profession and an artist by vocation. The Russian occupiers destroyed his district, went over with a tractor, and leveled it to the ground to hide the traces of their crimes. About life in besieged Mariupol in an interview with Pavlo Ponomarenko.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young Crimean faces possible prison sentence for kicking the Russian flag because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Hlib Malkov is just 21, yet, when understands very well that Crimea is part of Ukraine and that Russia’s so-called referendum was an illegal fake

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

EU imposes sanctions over torture and persecution of Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, Nariman Dzhelyal and others in Russian-occupied Crimea

The sanctions target two of the FSB officers involved in the savage torture of Vladislav Yesypenko and others directly complicit in knowingly imprisoning innocent men

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I realized that I could easily be turned in’

Ihor Ivanovych served in Murmansk in a special forces detachment and later as a border guard. He returned to Mariupol because he wanted to live in Ukraine: he was born in the Lviv Region and always considered himself a Ukrainian. After spending 35 days in the basement, the 70-year-old man ran away, fearing that he would be handed over to the occupiers for his pro-Ukrainian views.

• War crimes

Russian torture of Ukrainian civilians and POWs is clearly state-endorsed policy – UN Rapporteur

Russia is also blocking access to areas under its occupation with this making it possible to obtain important evidence

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB detains, then terrorizes and threatens to abduct young Crimean Tatar mother

The FSB’s excuse for its terrorization of the Zekeryaev family, including their small children, was a harmless conversation on a VKontakte page deleted years ago.

• Voices of war   • Interview

Officers don’t work

A military medic from Mariupol showed phenomenal courage in Russian captivity, surpassing the plot of a famous feature film.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Ukrainian political prisoner accused of ‘recruiting Russians to fight for Ukraine’

There are fears that Russia may be planning to fabricate new charges against Hennady Lymeshko who is already serving an 8-year sentence on surreal charges

• War crimes

Ukrainians in occupied territory refused life-saving insulin unless they take Russian citizenship

While claiming near 100% support for ‘joining Russia’, the Russian occupiers are using weapons of coercion, including deprivation of medication, to force unwilling Ukrainians to take unwanted Russian passports

• Events

Yevhen Zakharov shortlisted for the Václav Havel Prize 2023

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

How volunteer doctors work with victims of Russian aggression

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.