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Russia kills 74-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner abducted from occupied Enerhodar

Russia bears full responsibility for the torment and death in its captivity of Oleksandr Markov whose health would have already been gravely undermined by being held incommunicado, and certainly denied proper medical care for almost a year

Russia is hiding the body of Ukrainian journalist who died after months in notorious Russian prison

Whether or not Russia deliberately murdered Victoria Roshchyna, its imprisonment of the young journalist was illegal, and the fact that she was held at a prison notorious for torture of immense concern

Russia refuses critically ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner life-saving heart surgery

Crimean Solidarity civic journalist Amet Suleimanov turned 40 on 25 October 2024 in Russian prison with his persecutors seemingly determined to cause his death

Imprisoned Crimean Tatar civic journalist will die soon without life-saving heart surgery

Amet Suleimanov should never have been imprisoned, let alone delivered a death sentence for his Crimean Solidarity journalism.  Please help ensure that Russia is stopped from carrying it out!

Russia admits to passing death sentence against imprisoned Crimean Tatar civic journalist Amet Suleimanov

Russian doctors have acknowledged that the Crimean Solidarity civic journalist and political prisoner is gravely ill, but say he will be released only “twenty minutes before dying”

Ukrainian prisoner dies after savage beating by prison staff and refusal to provide medical care

Serhiy Trotsko died because Ukraine’s penitentiary service, even its medics preferred to watch him die than to tell the truth about the torture he had been subjected to

Russia refuses critically ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner vital heart medication

Russia is flouting a UN Committee against Torture order regarding its imprisonment of Amet Suleimanov and effective torture of the Crimean Tatar civic journalist imprisoned on politically motivated charges

First sentences in Ukraine over mass murder of Maidan activists

The prosecutor has already announced that he will be appealing against the startling verdicts and sentences

Russia upholds death sentences against two Crimean Tatar political prisoners after killing one of them

For monstrous reasons, it was probably predictable that the 13-year sentence against the late Dzhemil Gafarov would be upheld, but the ‘judges’ still had the opportunity to save the life of 63-year-old Servet Gaziev, and failed to take it

Russia refuses to investigate the torture to death of Crimean Tatar political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov

It is vital, therefore, that all of those implicated in implementing effective death sentences are placed under international sanctions

Gravely ill Crimean Tatar civic journalist sent to certain death in Russian prison

Russia has already caused the deaths of two Ukrainian political prisoners, and has now flouted the United Nations Committee against Torture and begun implementing an effective death sentence against Amet Suleimanov

Russia has killed two Ukrainian political prisoners and is endangering at least 21 others

The Soviet regime also denied Ukrainian political prisoners medical treatment and caused their deaths, but, according to one former Soviet political prisoner, the level of lawlessness was not as bad as now

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