Imprisoned Ukrainian marine biologist charged with ‘treason’ for opposing Russia’s plans in Antarctic area

Russia is openly persecuting 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov for remaining loyal to Ukraine and for seeking to protect marine resources and diversity in the Southern Ocean. Without robust international attention, he faces a 12-20-year sentence

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Russia stages new ‘trial’ of savagely tortured Ukrainian partisan already sentenced to 26 years

The charges against Hryhory Sinchenko, Volodymyr Makarenko and Dmytro Palenko are grotesque with Russia’s torture of Sinchenko dating back to long before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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First arrest under new Russian law over an Internet search for Ukraine’s Azov Regiment

The move is particularly chilling as the 20-year-old student was detained just hours after browsing the Internet

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Crimean woman sentenced to 5.5 years for social media criticism of Russia's war against Ukraine

Although Kateryna Fomenko was charged with 'circulating military fakes', all of the comments first used for administrative prosecutions were critical of Russia's war of aggression, but in no way false

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Sentenced to die in immense pain for religious independence in Russian-occupied Crimea

Lenur Khalilov is gravely ill and Russia’s rearrest is both a death sentence in his case and a clear indication that even Russian legislation will not apply in the case of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB uses propaganda and hate speech to justify its terror against Crimean Tatar women

The FSB’s press service is complicit, as are other main players, in fabricating absurd charges carrying monstrous sentences

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Sinister secrecy over Russia’s abduction, torture and imprisonment of Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska

Russia has held Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska incommunicado, without any charges being laid for well over two years. It is chillingly unclear why they appear to be hiding her

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Russian solider sentenced to life for gunning down an unarmed Ukrainian POW

Despite the mounting number of Russian executions of Ukrainians surrendering, this was the first such trial, with the soldier’s commander having confirmed they were instructed not to take prisoners

Russians murder civilians waving a white flag as UN report slams mass-scale and systematic attacks as crimes against humanity

Russia uses the same methods over a vast area, with it clear that civilians are deliberately targeted, in the hope of driving Ukrainians from their territory

Remembrance of the Holodomor banned, but not crushed, in Russian-occupied Ukraine

In remembering the victims of a terrible act of genocide, please remember also those on occupied territory who continue to honour their memory despite the real threat of Russian repression

Russian invaders’ ‘court’ sentences Ukrainian to 12.5 years for patriotism

Russia claims that donations to the defenders of one's country constitute 'crimes' aimed against the 'security' of the Russian Federation

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