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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

Russia’s ‘Dr Evil’ charged over savage torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war

Russia has systematically tortured Ukrainian POWs in most places of imprisonment. In Mordovian Prison Colony No. 10, however, the most notorious torturer was a medical worker

Install MAX, Russia’s big brother surveillance app or face repression in occupied Ukraine

An IT specialist earlier called the installation of Russia's MAX messenger app "equivalent to voluntarily passing your telephone into the total control of the security service”. On occupied territory, it's anything but voluntary

57-year-old midwife sentenced to 11 years in ongoing Russian terror against residents of occupied Enerhodar

Larysa Malovychko has already been in Russian captivity for over two years, with it likely that she was seized because of her pro-Ukrainian position

Ukrainians who fail ‘filtration’ interrogation held prisoner in Russian ‘refugee’ point until FSB fabricates charges

Russia’s ‘filtration’, aimed at ferreting out those seen as too ‘pro-Ukrainian’ is already profoundly illegal, with the details of how criminal charges are concocted, positively terrifying

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