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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Two years of open attack on Crimean Tatars, with even political prisoners' families and lawyers jailed

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.

• War crimes

FSB in occupied Melitopol threaten to send children to Russia if parents don’t agree to their indoctrination

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

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘After the de-occupation, he collected the bodies of dead Russian soldiers’

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.

• War crimes

Ukrainians in occupied territory forced at gunpoint to vote for fake candidates in Russia's pseudo-election

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’

• War crimes

New insane charges against Ukrainian tortured into ‘confessing’ to killings probably arranged by Russia

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

Jan Rachinsky, chairman of the International ‘Memorial’ Society

Speech in Oslo on August 31, 2023 at the Nobel Peace Conference: Human Rights Heroes.

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

Russia refuses to investigate the torture to death of Crimean Tatar political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov

It is vital, therefore, that all of those implicated in implementing effective death sentences are placed under international sanctions

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

Russia makes repeating lies about its war against Ukraine mandatory in all schools, including on occupied territory

Russia is using propaganda textbooks and compulsory exams to impose its lies about its full-scale invasion, annexation of Ukrainian territory and war crimes on schools in occupied Ukraine

• Voices of war   • Interview

Polygraph to attest pro-Ukrainian position: Doctor from Kherson

Leonid Remyha was in charge of one of the hospitals in Kherson at the beginning of the Russian invasion. The head physician ended up in a Russian torture chamber for refusing to cooperate with the invaders.

• Events

Defender of Crimean Tatar political prisoners gets 6 years for posts spelling out Russia's war crimes in Ukraine

There was no fake information in the social media texts Olga Smirnova posted, merely information that clashed with the standard lies issued by the Kremlin and Russian defence military

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Sight of it left me speechless’

“Burned cars, murdered women and men...” — Ruslan Kosian, a resident of the village of Dmytrivka, talks about the consequences of the Russian occupation. The man did not want to leave his house and was under occupation. Despite the risk, he delivered aid to the long-suffering Bucha, Moschun, and Borodianka. Once, Ruslan had to drive the Russians out of his yard.

• War crimes

Kherson war veteran seized by the Russians and hidden for 18 months now faces huge sentence for 'spying for Ukraine’

The aggressor state seized Oleksandr Zarivny from his Ukrainian hometown and, after holding him incommunicado for 10 months, came up with insane ‘espionage’ charges