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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s attack on Crimean Solidarity extends repression to all lawyers defending political prisoners

The list of new targets, the vast majority of whom are Crimean Tatars, is huge, and includes human rights defenders, journalists and the fathers, wives or other close family members of political prisoners


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Young volunteer, firefighters, medics killed for trying to save the victims of Russian attacks

Russia’s repeat strikes, timed to kill those seeking to save the victims of earlier attacks, have increased sharply each year and are clearly coordinated state policy

• War crimes   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Unending torment as Valentyn Vyhivsky, other Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russian captivity after long sentences

Valentyn and his family have already suffered enough after 11 long years, as have others, like Hennadiy Lymeshko who was seized after serving an 8-year sentence and sentenced to two more years

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Russia passes horrific 24-year sentence against Melitopol man ‘for possession of explosives’

Standard ‘treason’ and ‘terrorism’ charges were thrown in, however the only actual ‘offence’ claimed is one standardly fabricated against Ukrainian political prisoners

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

At least 55 Crimeans are held incommunicado, without charges, in notorious FSB-controlled prison

64-year-old Marat Batyrov and Sakha Manhubi, a young mother with two small children, are now known to have been held at SIZO-2 for up to a year with the isolation and lack of official recognition often used by the FSB to torture out 'confessions'

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Monstrous 18-year sentence against 66-year-old Ukrainian from Russian-occupied Sevastopol

Russia’s ‘treason trials’ in occupied Crimea all seem to come from the same conveyor belt, with the sentence against Oleksandr Hlukhoiedov one of three churned out on virtually identical charges

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Russia uses Ukrainian flag as pretext for new charges against ‘freed’ political prisoner Serhiy Buhaichuk

Serhiy Buhaichuk always denied the first fabricated charges used to sentence him to 8 years and then refused to go along with the new stunt. He may be suffering reprisals for this, or simply be an easy – Ukrainian -target

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A civilian prisoner from Mariupol is in critical condition

He broke into Mariupol in March 2022 to save his family. The family managed to leave, but he did not. Mariupol boxing coach Dmytro Shurda has been in captivity for more than five years — despite serious diagnoses: tuberculosis, HIV, two heart attacks and a stroke.

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Crimean political prisoner Bohdan Ziza transferred to Buryatia

The illegally imprisoned Crimean artist Bohdan Ziza was transferred to Ulan-Ude, thousands of kilometers from his home, which is a gross violation of international law.

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Bedridden “Azov man” in Russia was convicted of “terrorism”

. . . For the fifth year in a row, Inna talks to her son every day, holding his photograph in front of her. She tells him about his younger brothers, asks him to hold on, and — most importantly! — survive. “Azovian” Bohdan is far away: in Russian captivity. Confined to bed after several shell shocks and severe beatings. Sentenced by a Russian court to 16 years in prison.

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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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