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Russia 'issues machine guns to maniacs' in return for killing Ukrainians

Only political prisoners get real sentences: murderers in Russia, even those who have killed multiple times, escape punishment by signing contracts to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Chillingly lawless armed raid on Crimean Tatar lawyers defending victims of Russian repression

With Russia having crushed any independent media in occupied Crimea and imprisoned civic journalists and activists, the lawyers defending political prisoners are often their only voice - a voice that Russia is trying to silence

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Poland detains Russian archaeologist wanted in Ukraine for illegal excavations in occupied Crimea

Ukraine has 40 days to prepare its extradition request with Alexander Butyagin the first Russian to be detained over ongoing and often irreparable damage to places of Crimean Tatar and / or Ukrainian cultural heritage

A Mother in Captivity: The Story of Snizhana Kozlova

She tried to save her wounded son but ended up in captivity. The team of the APUS Project and the ‘People1st!’ campaign created an animated video about Snizhana Kozlova, a civilian from Mariupol who was taken by the occupiers during filtration and separated from her son. The family still does not know where Snizhana is being held. We urge you to sign the petition demanding the release of Ukrainian civilians detained by the occupiers.

Human Rights: A Perfect Storm

Are we facing the triumph of despotism and new world wars in the 21st century? Statement by the Board of the International Association ‘Memorial’ on Human Rights Day.

Russia sentences 61-year-old Ukrainian to 12.5 years for donation to Ukraine’s defenders

Maryna Bilousova has become the latest of a huge number of Ukrainians to be accused by an invading power of ‘treason’ for supporting the defenders of their own country

‘I have a question for the Russian authorities: why did you kill our children?’

On December 3, the exhibition “Angels of Kharkiv Region” dedicated to the children of the region killed by the Russian army opened in Kharkiv. It was initiated by the mother of the deceased, eleven-year-old Mark, Tetyana Matyash-Myrna. The KHPG and the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office supported this idea.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Abducted Crimean Tatar mother of two sentenced to 15 years on Russia's cynical ‘treason’ charges

Niyara Ersmambetova has a 16-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter who have been left with their grandfather, who is 70 and has Grade II disability status

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar political prisoner Tofik Abdulgaziev diagnosed with a brain tumour

Russia passed huge sentences against Tofik Abdulgaziev and 24 other Crimean Tatars for their human rights activities. It is directly responsible for Tofik's tuberculosis and other conditions and should, on those grounds, have released him long ago

Russian legislators formalize mass plunder of Ukrainians’ homes on occupied territory

A new bill will hugely increase the number of properties Russia can claim to be ‘ownerless’ and illegally appropriate

Russia sentences Luhansk woman to 16 years for sheltering two defenders of Ukraine

The aggressor state claimed that Yulia Mosiak, a Ukrainian citizen, “decided to commit treason” (under Russian legislation!) by protecting the Ukrainian defenders of her own country

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB carry out armed 'inspection' of Crimean Tatar journalist's home, take her away for interrogation

This act of intimidation was one of the increasingly aggressive methods that Russia has used against journalists and civic activists in occupied Crimea

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