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Viktoriia Ivlieva: ‘I would never defend Russia’

Journalist and photographer Viktoriia Ivlieva calls herself a “bad Russian” and dreams of seeing the president of her country in court.

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

13-year sentences for somebody else's conversation in cynical rehash of Russia's first attack on Crimean Tatar rights activists

The indictment and ‘evidence’ against Oleh Fedorov and Ernest Ibragimov were not only based on an identical political trial four years earlier, but one of the men’s voices was not even on the innocent conversation used as ‘evidence’

• War crimes

Russia hides new crimes committed by convicted prisoners pardoned by Putin for killing in Ukraine

While sentencing political prisoners to 20 years, Russia releases multiple killers, armed robbers, etc. to fight in Ukraine and then sends them home to continue killing, raping and robbing with violence there

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russians seize Crimean Tatar from occupied Kherson oblast in revenge for Ukraine’s Civic Blockade of Crimea

The only element of truth in the legal nonsense against Alim Veliliaev is that the activities he is accused of took place on Ukrainian territory over which Russia has never had any jurisdiction

• War crimes

At least one Ukrainian from Kherson oblast dead after invaders refuse healthcare without Russian passport

The Ukrainian living in his own home on Ukrainian territory would probably still be alive had he not been refused healthcare because he hadn’t adopted the invading power’s citizenship

• War crimes

Russia abducts Ukrainian from Berdiansk and tortures out ‘confession’ for insane ‘international terrorism trial’

Vitaliy Rastorhuev would not voluntarily have used Putin’s euphemism for Russia’s war against Ukraine, nor could he have spontaneously adapted his ‘confession’ to fit surreal FSB charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Young Crimean Tatar seized trying to visit her gravely ill father held in Russian solitary confinement

Russia's seizure and charges against Leniye Umerova have been described as one of the most overtly fabricated cases to date, and the competition since Russia began its aggression against Ukraine has been fierce

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The Russians mindlessly destroy everything around,’ — Mariia Karandiuk, Zalissia

She was born in 1941 and survived the German occupation and exile. During World War II, the Germans almost burned down the warehouse where she was with her mother. In 2022, ruthless invaders came to Ukraine again. Now peaceful Ukrainians are being killed by Russians.

• War crimes

Russia sentences Ukrainians to over 20 years for partisan attack on Kherson collaborator

Yuriy Domanchuk and Vitaliy Skakun were seized by the Russian invaders and illegally ‘tried’ under Russian law for allegedly trying to kill a Ukrainian traitor on Ukrainian territory

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

15 years in Russian captivity for helping Crimean Solidarity human rights movement

Russia has now sentenced 25 Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists (including the late Dzhemil Gafarov whom it effectively tortured to death) to 355 years’ imprisonment for refusing to remain silent about its repression in occupied Crimea

• War crimes

Russia has been mercilessly tormenting 23-year-old Marianna Checheliuk from Mariupol for over a year

Marianna Checheliuk has been held prisoner by the Russians for well over a year, with her family disillusioned that the assurances given by the UN and Red Cross

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

Crimean Tatar journalist sent to Siberia for 19 years for reporting on Russian repression in occupied Crimea

Remzi Bekirov was described by a former US Ambassador to Ukraine as “an inspiration, not only to your fellow Ukrainians, but to freedom-loving people around the world"