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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

75-year-old Volodymyr Ananiev is facing a massive sentence he can't survive for a 'crime' that never happened

The elderly Ukrainian, whose civic activism would have made him an obvious target, is being held in horrific conditions and denied even the most fundamental health care

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Mass detentions four times as Crimean Tatar delegation heads to Moscow demanding justice

Russia is, yet again repeating Soviet ways in its persecution of Crimean Tatars, with the efforts to stop the Crimean Tatars from reaching Moscow both profoundly lawless and, ultimately, futile

• War crimes

Remembrance of the Holodomor banned, but not crushed, in Russian-occupied Ukraine

In remembering the victims of a terrible act of genocide, please remember also those on occupied territory who continue to honour their memory despite the real threat of Russian repression

• War crimes

Russian invaders’ ‘court’ sentences Ukrainian to 12.5 years for patriotism

Russia claims that donations to the defenders of one's country constitute 'crimes' aimed against the 'security' of the Russian Federation

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

70-year-old Crimean Jehovah’s Witness convicted of ‘organizing an extremist organization’ for practising her faith

“Real freedom is not the place you are in, but the presence of truth inside you”  Tamara Bratseva stated during her ‘trial’ in response to the prosecutor’s demand of a real 6-year sentence

• War crimes

Russia kills two 16-year-olds, tortures and imprisons three other lads from occupied Melitopol

With appalling cynicism, the Russians claimed that Danylo Dakhov and Pavlo Hrymak had blown themselves with a homemade explosive device when they had been in Russian captivity for 10 months

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

From 17-year sentence to death in Russian captivity for Crimean Tatar political prisoner accused of another person’s voice on a tape?

Russia’s FSB targeted Azamat Eyupov, veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement, for his peaceful protest against Russian repression, with nothing allowed to prevent a 17-year sentence

• War crimes

Russia sentences youngest abducted journalist to 14 years for Melitopol is Ukraine Telegram channel

The sentence against Yana Suvorova is the fourth to date against courageous journalists / Telegram channel administrators providing truthful information about Melitopol under Russian occupation

• War crimes

Ukrainian abducted, tortured and sentenced to life because Ukraine carried out an attack on Russian invaders

If Mykola Dzhosh did provide information to Ukraine’s Armed Forces, then all credit to him, however the 33-year-old may well have been seized because the Russians needed somebody to blame

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Imprisoned Ukrainian marine biologist charged with ‘treason’ for opposing Russia’s plans in Antarctic area

Russia is openly persecuting 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov for remaining loyal to Ukraine and for seeking to protect marine resources and diversity in the Southern Ocean. Without robust international attention, he faces a 12-20-year sentence

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian court orders rearrest and 17-year sentence against blind and disabled Crimean political prisoner

Russia’s prosecutor has confirmed that even blindness and Russian legislation envisaging Oleksandr Sizikov’s release are no impediment where Russia’s persecution of Crimean political prisoners is concerned

• War crimes

Russian invaders gun down civilians in Pokrovsk, try to kill others in evacuation van

It is not just that the invaders know they can kill civilians with impunity. Putin has 'honoured' many such suspected war criminals