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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Revenge sentence against Crimean civic journalist Iryna Danilovych upheld despite grotesque charges and ongoing medical torture

All those involved in the prosecution of Iryna Danilovich knew that they were taking part in reprisals against a person for her courage and refusal to be silenced in the face of mounting repression

• War crimes

Russia hides Kharkiv student abducted 15 months ago ‘for opposing’ its invasion

Mykyta Shkriabin, a third-year law university student, has not been seen since he was seized by Russian soldiers in Kharkiv oblast on 29 March 2022

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Guilty as Tortured: How Russia ‘looks for’ rail partisans in occupied Crimea

Even when faced with real acts of sabotage on railway tracks deployed in Moscow’s war against Ukraine, the Russian FSB prefer to extract fake 'confessions' through torture, than actually investigate

• War crimes

Russia has carried out summary executions of at least 77 civilian detainees since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

The figure provided in a new UN report is, unfortunately, likely to be much higher, both because of areas still under occupation, and because the Russians also carried out on-the-spot summary executions

• Voices of war   • Interview

The Russians shelled the cellars in which people were hiding

Kateryna Rakhmatulina was not evacuated from Velyka Dymerka because she could hardly walk. They hid in the cellar with her eldest grandson, and the house above them bounced from constant shelling. Their neighbor was shot because he refused to give the Russians his sneakers. Catherine says that it was a miracle that she did not die.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We were nothing and nobody. We were a human shield for the Russians’

Nadiia Korcheva is from the village of Zalissia. Her blind sister died in a nearby house from hunger and cold. Nadiia was able to bury her only after the de-occupation. The Russians smashed everything around, robbed homes, mined vegetable gardens, and put up land mines. “But I carried on propaganda with them. I tried to convince them to surrender. I talked about our state,” — says the brave woman.

• War crimes   • Research

The Torture of Ukrainian soldiers and imprisoned civilians

On 26 June 1987, the UN Convention Against Torture (and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment) came into effect. At present, 173 States, including Ukraine and Russia, have signed and ratified the Convention.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia detains and prosecutes elderly activists for flying the Crimean Tatar Flag

While the rest of Ukraine celebrated Crimean Tatar National Flag Day, the Russian occupation regime came up with preposterous charges against two Crimean Tatars simply for flying the flag on their cars

• The right to life

Ukraine passes long sentences against former top official over savage killing of Kherson activist Kateryna Handziuk

Almost five years after a horrific acid attack on Kateryna Handziuk, a first-instance court in Kyiv has sentenced Vladyslav Manher to 10 years on a charge of commissioning the crime

• War crimes

Russian invaders kill two Ukrainian teenagers after torturing them as suspected rail partisans

There are serious discrepancies in Russia’s claim that 16-year-old Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov were killed ‘in a shootout’

• War crimes

Russia begins surreal ‘international terrorism trial’ after abducting and torturing five Ukrainians from occupied Melitopol

Yet another ‘trial’ with predetermined outcome has begun with five Ukrainians accused by the Russian aggressor state of ‘international terrorism’ and facing sentences of up to life imprisonment

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘My husband and daughter wanted to get to Brovary on foot’

Valentyna Bas, a resident of Zalissia village, went to work in Brovary on 8 March. On the same day, her village was occupied by the Russians. The woman tried in vain to rescue her family. In desperation, Valentyna's husband and daughter decided to walk to Brovary, but Russian soldiers detained them.

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