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Russia sentences Kherson oblast woman to 10 years just after UN Commission blasts such ‘predetermined verdicts'

The ‘trial’ and sentence against Olena Nishanova were identical to those against Iryna Hedzyk, Olena Kosenko and very many others, with the UN Commission damning the brazen violation of all principles of a fair trial


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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian medical torture and effective death sentences for civic activism in occupied Crimea

Russia falsifies medical records and openly flout its own legislation in order to carry out reprisals to the end against Crimean Tatar and other Crimean political prisoners savagely persecuted for their refusal to remain silent

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Ukrainian sentenced to 20 years for “wanting to blow up railway’ used for Russia’s war against Ukraine

Andriy Diachenko may or may not have been a ‘railway partisan’, but he is undoubtedly a victim of Russia’s brazen persecution of Ukrainians on illegally occupied territory

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Crimean gets long sentence for opposing invasion while Russian politicians freely incite to genocide against Ukraine

Serhiy Tubolets is the latest victim of Russia's use of flawed 'terrorism' legislation in its arsenal against Ukrainians

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Russia causes humanitarian disaster in occupied Oleshky while blocking any escape

Locals suspect that they are not being allowed out of Oleshky deliberately as the Russians need them there as human shields while carrying out systematic attacks on Kherson from the city.

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Anna Bazikalo sentenced to 16 years two years after her abduction from Russian occupied Luhansk oblast

Even by Russian standards, the sentence was brutal and handed down after almost two years of being held incommunicado

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Russia sentences former Ukrainian defender to 19 years after torturing out a backdated ‘confession’

This latest fake trial of a Ukrainian for defending his country is especially cynical as Dmytro Nosenko’s captors tortured out a grotesque ‘confession’ to involvement in a ‘terrorist organization’

• Voices of war

‘You won't get out of hereʼ: the story of Konstantin Davydenkoʼs Russian captivity

Officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Konstantin Davydenko on February 11, 2018, in the temporarily occupied Simferopol, accusing him of "espionage." The man spent seven and a half years in penitentiary facilities, during which he endured physical and psychological torture. In a maximum-security penal colony, Konstantin had a stroke, and his health was severely compromised. On August 24, 2025, he was freed as part of a captive exchange.

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I repeated it like a prayer: ‘Donbas is Ukraine!’

We share the story of how Horlivka teacher Natalia Shilo was held captive and later released. In the toughest times, her natural sense of justice, anger toward the occupiers, and... a higher mathematics workbook helped her survive.

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Occupiers are blackmailing the families of prisoners of war by demanding they register Starlink terminals in their names

Coordination Headquarters warns that Russians are trying to intimidate Ukrainians whose relatives are in captivity. They aim to regain control of the illegal Starlink terminals that SpaceX recently disconnected.

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Dissident movement in Ukraine. Virtual museum

KHPG has been researching the history of the human rights movement in Ukraine for over 30 years. In particular, it has prepared about 350 biographies of the movement participants, conducted more than 200 interviews with them and published their works.

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Documenting war crimes in Ukraine

The global T4P (Tribunal for Putin) initiative was created in response to Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine in February 2022. The participants of the initiative document events that have signs of crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes) in all regions of Ukraine.

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