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Duma broadens ‘treason’ charges against anybody opposing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

Russian legislators have dangerously broadened the definition of charges standardly used against Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages, while also extending the range of targets

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Russia churns out surreal ‘terrorism’ sentences against Ukrainian POWs for defending Ukraine

The manipulative methods used to try to prove that men defending their country were ‘taking part in a terrorist organization’ are pitiful, and terrifyingly lawless

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20-year-old from Mariupol sentenced to 11 years for argument opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia’s invasion and occupation of Mariupol have brought repression, torture and a chilling resurrection of the worst Soviet practices, including denunciation by collaborators

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Legislators equate criticism of Russia's war against Ukraine with ‘terrorism and extremism’

A new law just passed has handed Russia’s FSB yet another “powerful weapon of persecution” against those who tell the truth about Russia’s war crimes and about Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation

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Mass ‘treason’ trials and huge sentences for helping Ukraine in Russian-occupied Crimea

The fact that Lenur Ibragimov may have earlier faced prosecution for peaceful civic activism, and that one of the ‘accusations’ against Vladyslav Afanasiev was of having donated to Ukraine’s Army only exacerbate concerns about such ‘trials’

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Russia’s ‘Youth army’ used in occupied Ukraine to recruit young Ukrainians to die for the enemy

Russia’s militarization of childhood on occupied territory, and militaristic formations like ‘Yunarmia’ are war crimes, with Russia now using this so-called 'Youth Army' to get new ‘cannon fodder’ for its army

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Blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner taken to Russia for lawless 17-year sentence

All Russia's sentences against Crimean Muslims who have committed no crime are savage, but here they have brought insane 'terrorism' charges and are imposing a 17-year sentence against a man who cannot see and needs help to move around

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Russia effectively acknowledges scale of its war crimes through horrific ‘sentences’ against Ukrainian POWs

Russia almost certainly tortured the ten Ukrainian prisoners of war before staging these latest fake ‘trials’ and sentences of up to life imprisonment

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Ten years of Russian torment for a photo of cows grazing on a disused aerodrome

Viktor Shur is almost 68, with Russia's torture and 10 years of imprisonment having taken a terrible toll on his health

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Life sentence sought in Finland against Russian neo-Nazi charged with war crimes in Ukraine

Yan Petrovsky is on trial, under the name Voislav Torden, assumed to try to avoid international sanctions, accused of five grave war crimes in occupied Luhansk oblast

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Russia concocts 11-year sentence for 'spying' almost 3 years after abducting and torturing Vladyslav Bily

37-year-old Vladyslav Bily disappeared without trace in March 2022, with Russia only admitting to holding him and coming up with 'spying' charges in September 2024

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Young Crimean sentenced to 16 years for circulating video on resistance to Russian occupation

26-year-old Eldar Abduraimov had circulated a video about the ATESH partisan movement which arose in 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine