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Women increasingly targeted in huge sentences on ‘spying / treason’ charges in Russian-occupied Luhansk region

Even if the victims are not physically tortured, it is near certain that they were abducted, held incommunicado and not given access to independent lawyers before guaranteed 'convictions' and huge sentences on charges of surreal cynicism

• Children’s rights   • War crimes

War and ‘Russian world’ propaganda instead of learning foreign languages in schools in occupied Ukraine

Russia has already knocked out ‘defence of rights and liberties’, other ‘destructive western ideology’ and is seeking to brainwash children in occupied Ukraine that they should be ready to fight and die for Russia

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Russia drops lethal flower petal mines in ongoing terror against civilians in Kherson

Such landmines are clearly targeting civilians as are the Russian drones with which Russia has been found to be committing crimes against humanity in Kherson and Kherson oblast

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Daily ‘treason trials’ expose Russia’s lies about mass support in occupied Crimea

The 'trial' of Serhiy Bodnarashyk was something of a record-maker for the swiftness of the sentence, but all such 'trials' are broadly identical in their secrecy and in the fact that convictions and long sentences are guaranteed

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia is killing 70-year-old Halyna Dovhopola, sentenced to 12 years for loving Ukraine

Halyna earlier wrote that she and other political prisoners are waiting and “fighting for our life, so as to not “die in Russia” behind barbed wire”, She urgently needs our help

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar journalist and human rights defender faces new prosecution for reporting Russian repression

Russia's persecution of Lutfiye Zudiyeva began back in 2019 because the courageous Crimean Solidarity human rights defender refused to be silent about Russia's violations in occupied Crimea, The regime's new moves place her in even greater danger

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences young Crimean woman to 15 years after abducting and holding her incommunicado for ten months

This was more akin to an enforced disappearance, than an 'arrest', one of a terrifying number that Russia brought with its invasion of Crimea

• War crimes

Seven months of torture for Russian show trial of Ukrainians abducted from occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

Russia calls opposing its invasion ‘international terrorism’ , not its abduction, torture and monstrous sentences against three Ukrainians

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

Russia releases gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner after causing the death of several others

Lenur Khalilov should never have been imprisoned, and is likely to have been ill for a long time without any reaction

• War crimes   • Events

Russian court sentences Memorial Head to 6 years for calling persecuted Ukrainian POWs political prisoners

Russia will not, at least, be able to execute its sentence against Sergei Davidis, unlike the Azov POWs and hundreds of other Ukrainian prisoners of war and political prisoners

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian court sentences young Crimean to 15 years for fictitious 'planned terrorist attack’

Alina Grek was first jailed for five days, purportedly over a video posted back in 2014 when she was just 15. This would not be the first time that the FSB then resorted to very serious charges if a person refused to be cowered

• War crimes

Mustafa Dzhemilev: Any ‘peace deal violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity will prepare the ground for new Russian invasion

Russia has made no secret of its demands, and any coercion of Ukraine into so-called ‘territorial swapping’ would not only be immoral and in violation of international law, but also deeply dishonest