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Russia is brutally torturing and may kill dangerously ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner

Amet Suleimanov was sentenced to 12 years effectively for reporting on Russian repression in occupied Crimea. In his case this is undoubtedly a death sentence, with the danger imminent and mounting

ECHR strikes out Russia’s attempt to blame Ukraine for the downing of MH17

Russia’s application to the European Court of Human Rights may well have always been aimed at causing more delay to the important interstate case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia over the latter’s role in MH17

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

Life-saving medication taken away from gravely ill Crimean Solidarity civic journalist in Russian occupation prison

The penitentiary service may well kill Amet Suleimanov even before Russia tries to execute the next stage of this effective death sentence and send him to a Russian prison colony.

Controversial verdict over abduction, torture and killing of Euromaidan activist Yury Verbytskyy

Oleksandr Medvid has been found guilty of abducting Yury Verbytsky from hospital during the Euromaidan protests, but has been freed from serving the sentence

UN Committee orders Russia to refrain from killing second Crimean Tatar political prisoner in one month

Failure to comply will almost certainly result in the death of civic journalist Amet Suleimanov less than a month after Russia tortured Crimean Tatar political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov to death

Russia terminates ‘trial’ of refugee it killed in occupied Crimea two years ago

The Russian authorities are still refusing to hand over the body of Nabi Rakhimov with the reason almost certainly because this would confirm that the FSB are lying about how and why they killed Rakhimov

Russia tortures Crimean Tatar political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov to death

60-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov died in a Russian prison on 10 February 2023, almost four years after he was first arrested on fabricated charges and, in violation even of Russian law, placed in detention

Sentence passed over savage killing of Ukrainian human rights lawyer Iryna Nozdrovska

The victim’s daughter believes that the sentence against Yury Rossoshansky was just, but that others were also involved in her savage murder, including a high-ranking police official

Russia kills refugee in occupied Crimea, then ‘puts him on trial’

A Russian court is about to begin the ‘trial’ of Nabi Rakhimov, 13 months after the Uzbek refugee was killed by the Russian FSB in occupied Crimea

‘... I sang in the basement to calm my daughter down’

Kyiv volunteer Antonina Dembitska interviews Ukrainians, who had to flee the war, to preserve the voices of witnesses for the history and future tribunal of war criminals. Read an interview with a Kharkiv woman who was forced to flee shelling and bombing with a baby in her arms and a five-year-old daughter.

SOS! Save the civilian population in Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel!

We call on the int. community & anyone who can influence and urge the aggressor state to provide the civilians with the possibility to evacuate to safer locations and to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and new human casualties in this war unleashed by Russia.

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