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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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• 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

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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

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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

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Russia sentences Luhansk woman to 16 years for sheltering two defenders of Ukraine

The aggressor state claimed claiming Yulia Mosiak, a Ukrainian citizen, “decided to commit treason” (under Russian legislation!) by protecting the Ukrainian defenders of her own country

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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

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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

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Music in Captivity: The Marine Corps Orchestra Conductor’s Story

Serhiy Smirnov is a military conductor who has led the orchestra of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade for nearly a decade. From April 2022 to September 2024, he was held in captivity alongside his comrades. One of them was tortured to death by Russian forces, and five of his musicians remain in captivity.

• Penal institutions

The Court of Appeal frees Viktor Sleptsov: a decision that should have been made immediately

The Vinnytsia Oblast Court of Appeal, presided over by Judge Serhiy Medvetskyi, ruled to release Viktor Sleptsov—a 68-year-old lifer with stage IV cancer.

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Civic Responsibility as the Only Way to Overcome Total Unfreedom

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yuly Daniel, a distinguished translator, poet, prose writer, defendant in the most high-profile political trial of the 1960s, and political prisoner.

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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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The right to privacy

The site contains decisions of international judicial bodies in precedent-setting cases and analytical articles on violations of personal data protection, illegal wiretapping, defamation and other issues related to the human right to privacy.

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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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