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The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) global initiative was set up in response to the all-out war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022.

News

Russia escalates ‘mobilization terror’ on occupied territory to get Ukrainians to fight its war against Ukraine

21.05.2025
It was always clear that one of the reasons why Russia pushed its citizenship on occupied territory was to enable illegal mobilization and use Ukrainians as cannon fodder for its war of aggression

Ukrainian abducted from Kherson sentenced to 17 years for attack on Russian collaborator

20.05.2025
Russia has been mercilessly bombing civilians in Kherson since the latter was liberated, yet claimed that Andriy Serezhenko’s alleged involvement in a legitimate attack on a Russian-installed traitor was ‘international terrorism’

Russia escalates persecution, labelling renowned Crimean Tatar journalist and human rights defender a ‘foreign agent’

19.05.2025
This is the latest of several attacks on Lutfiye Zudiyeva and clearly aimed at silencing the courageous Crimean Solidarity coordinator, whose male colleagues have ended up receiving massive sentences for refusing to be stifled

Three Russian ‘courts’ call defending Ukraine and obstructing invaders ‘international terrorism’

19.05.2025
Pavlo Zaporozhets was serving his country when abducted by the Russians, tortured and then sentenced to 12 years maximum-security imprisonment

Russia rubberstamps 15-year ‘treason’ sentence against 58-year-old Crimean activist Oksana Senedzhuk

16.05.2025
It is extremely likely that Oksana Senedzhuk was targeted because of her pro-Ukrainian position and open opposition to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine

Ukrainian preschoolers turned into ‘Russia’s little soldiers’ in occupied Luhansk

16.05.2025
Russia observes no minimum age for its aggressive militarization of Ukrainian children and attempts to brainwash them into wanting to ‘defend’ the invader

Ukrainians sentenced to 24 and 17 years for alleged 'terrorist' plot against Russian invaders in 2022

15.05.2025
Russia's use of 'terrorism' charges over an alleged plan to blow up a Russian military convoy that had no right to be on Ukrainian territory is only one of many suspicious aspects to this case

Russia ruled responsible for the downing of MH17 over occupied Ukraine and killing of 298 passengers and crew

14.05.2025
Russia is likely to stall and obstruct efforts to obtain legal redress, but the Civil Aviation Organization’s ruling is unprecedented and damning

Russian invaders erect monument to Soviet dictator Stalin in occupied Melitopol

13.05.2025
Russia is now importing its mounting glorification of a mass murderer responsible for acts of genocide against the Crimean Tatar people, and, through Holodomor, against Ukraine

Russia threatens Crimean Tatar political prisoners with deportation to Uzbekistan

12.05.2025
The move would be cynical and lawless, however Russia has already forcibly deported one human rights activist. They also killed recognized refugee Nabi Rahimov and then sent his wife back to Uzbekistan where she faced religious persecution

Publications

Yevhen Zakharov: Ukrainians are tortured in Russian captivity to break them physically and morally

21.05.2025
​​​​​​​Mordovia, Grozny, and even distant Minusinsk - human rights activists have already identified 127 places of imprisonment where the Russians are holding our citizens. We talked to the director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Yevhen Zakharov, about which institutions our prisoners are held in, whether the conditions of detention are the same, and how many Ukrainians end up on trial in the Russian Federation.

Concluding observations of the UN Committee against Torture on Ukraine’s seventh periodic report

20.05.2025
In April, the UN reviewed another report from our country on the implementation of the provisions of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. We are publishing the conclusions, recommendations, and observations of the UN Committee against Torture.

Meeting with Representatives of Ukrainian Roma in Brussels

25.04.2025
Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” continues to highlight the challenges faced by Roma communities in Ukraine. This year, with the support of IPHR is organized a meeting with Roma veterans who voluntarily joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

A reliable tool in the hands of human rights defenders: how the KHPG database works

23.04.2025
Convenient systematization, reliable archiving, and high speed of processing a large amount of information — all these make the database that KHPG fills during the search for missing and captured Ukrainians unique.

‘We dream of becoming unnecessary’: the Tribunal for Putin (T4P) initiative presents three-year report

26.03.2025
On March 25, 2025, the Tribunal for Putin (T4P) initiative released the results of its three years of work — nearly 85,000 documented war crimes and nine submissions to the International Criminal Court.

Press Release: International campaign for the release of captives held as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

24.02.2025
Online press conference: On the tragic anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine the UN Special Rapporteur, Nobel Peace Prize laureates and human rights groups demand to free all captives of war.

Three Years of Full-scale Russia-Ukraine war: the Kharkiv Region

24.02.2025
To date, personal data of 7,225 witnesses and victims of international crimes allegedly committed by the Russian occupiers, as well as 117 probable perpetrators of such crimes, have been recorded by our organization in the Kharkiv Region.

Europe Needs Peace, Not a New ‘Munich Agreement’

24.02.2025
Three Years Since the Beginning of Russian Aggression Against Ukraine

Statement of Ukrainian Non-Governmental Organizations on the Impossibility of Holding Democratic Elections without the Sustainable Peace

21.02.2025
Democracy in war time must be protected even more than during peace time because the cost of a mistake or loss of trust is extremely high.

Statement by human rights organizations on the application of personal sanctions against Poroshenko, Zhevago, Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov

14.02.2025
The application of sanctions to opposition politicians and businessmen is an extrajudicial political reprisal that undermines the fundamental principles of law, grossly violates the Constitution and international agreements ratified by Ukraine, poses serious threats to human rights and fundamental freedoms, and is also a usurpation of power in the state.

Prison medicine: ways to humanize it

07.02.2025
In the Kherson region, a prisoner falls under occupation and is taken to Russia, where he becomes seriously ill. The aggressor state releases him on health grounds, but at home, the native penitentiary system locks him up again, barely alive. Let’s find out what is wrong with the Ukrainian procedure for release from prison due to illness.

A janitor, a cook, an informer — who is being tried for collaborating with the enemy?

06.02.2025
And also — priests, school and hospital directors, as well as ‘judges’, ‘prosecutors’, and fighters from illegal armed groups. We have analyzed the judicial practice for you.