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International Memorial Association Statement

On February 22, 2022, International Memorial was dissolved by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. But, as we see, Memorial cannot be “dissolved”, just as a human being cannot be deprived of their innate ability to keep memories and reflect.

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

Russia upholds 14-year prison sentences for Crimean Tatar human rights activism

That justice could not be expected was clear from the day Russia launched its worst attack on the Crimean Tatar human rights movement to date, arresting 25 civic journalists and activists

• War crimes

Moscow planned the forced deportation of Ukrainians to Russia even before its full-scale invasion

Russia’s ‘legalization’ of forced deportation of Ukrainians from occupied territory on 18 May is only the latest step in policy that was clearly planned from the beginning, a report has demonstrated ‘

• Civic society

‘Defeating Russia in this war increases the chances of making it face justice’ Yevgeniy Zakharov’s interview with the Media Detector NGO (Ukraine)

The award of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize has been wrongly perceived by many in Ukraine, he says. He explains who in Ukraine is eligible to receive a part of the prize money awarded to the International Memorial Society.

• Voices of war   • Interview

Mariupol. ‘A sniper killed my husband’

We spoke with Olha Leus from Mariupol at the YaMariupol center in Lviv, where the Kharkiv human rights group came to help Mariupol residents who live in Lviv after leaving their hometown.

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

Russia sentences blind and disabled Ukrainian to 17 years for discussing politics and religion

A Russian court has passed huge sentences against three Crimean Muslims on essentially ‘thought crime’ charges, with the longest sentence against a man who is blind and could not have read the books which the FSB planted in his home as ‘evidence’.

• Voices of war   • Interview

There is brotherhood in ‘Azov’

Ruslan, a fighter from the “Azov” brigade, speaks about his way to “Azov”, a book that changed his worldview, an actual image of Ukraine, and a feeling of support and victory.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia conceals diagnosis after effectively torturing abducted civic journalist for over six months

Iryna Danilovich is in constant agonizing pain which the occupation prison authorities have been ignoring for over seven months

• War crimes

Moscow moves to legislate forced deportation of Ukrainians from occupied territory to Russia

Moscow is repeating policy used under Stalin to destroy the Ukrainian identity of areas currently under occupation and to deport those who refuse to be ‘Russified’

• War crimes

Ukrainian volunteer tortured by Russian FSB to fake evidence for ‘international terrorism’ show trial

Ukrainian volunteer Yuriy Kayov was tortured in Russian captivity for two months, during part of which time a young child was also imprisoned and taken to the torture room

• other

Russia escalates torture conditions against imprisoned Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyal

There seems every reason to assume that the new torment is also part of Moscow’s revenge against a man whose courage and moral fibre it cannot understand or break

• War crimes

Fake ‘evacuation’ from Zaporizhzhia oblast to move Russian forces and conceal war crimes

The effective deportation of Ukrainians from occupied territory is being used to mask Russia’s movement of personnel and hardware and to hide its war crimes