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Monstrous sentence against Yehor Kuch, a young Ukrainian accused by Russian invaders of ‘spying’ for his own country

The 20-year sentence is far worse than those regularly passed against violent criminals, with the other difference being that criminals will receive pardons and pay if they agree to fight in Ukraine

Russia 'issues machine guns to maniacs' in return for killing Ukrainians

Only political prisoners get real sentences: murderers in Russia, even those who have killed multiple times, escape punishment by signing contracts to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

A Mother in Captivity: The Story of Snizhana Kozlova

She tried to save her wounded son but ended up in captivity. The team of the APUS Project and the ‘People1st!’ campaign created an animated video about Snizhana Kozlova, a civilian from Mariupol who was taken by the occupiers during filtration and separated from her son. The family still does not know where Snizhana is being held. We urge you to sign the petition demanding the release of Ukrainian civilians detained by the occupiers.

Human Rights: A Perfect Storm

Are we facing the triumph of despotism and new world wars in the 21st century? Statement by the Board of the International Association ‘Memorial’ on Human Rights Day.

Russia sentences 61-year-old Ukrainian to 12.5 years for donation to Ukraine’s defenders

Maryna Bilousova has become the latest of a huge number of Ukrainians to be accused by an invading power of ‘treason’ for supporting the defenders of their own country

‘I have a question for the Russian authorities: why did you kill our children?’

On December 3, the exhibition “Angels of Kharkiv Region” dedicated to the children of the region killed by the Russian army opened in Kharkiv. It was initiated by the mother of the deceased, eleven-year-old Mark, Tetyana Matyash-Myrna. The KHPG and the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office supported this idea.

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

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

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

Install MAX, Russia’s big brother surveillance app or face repression in occupied Ukraine

An IT specialist earlier called the installation of Russia's MAX messenger app "equivalent to voluntarily passing your telephone into the total control of the security service”. On occupied territory, it's anything but voluntary

57-year-old midwife sentenced to 11 years in ongoing Russian terror against residents of occupied Enerhodar

Larysa Malovychko has already been in Russian captivity for over two years, with it likely that she was seized because of her pro-Ukrainian position

Ukrainians who fail ‘filtration’ interrogation held prisoner in Russian ‘refugee’ point until FSB fabricates charges

Russia’s ‘filtration’, aimed at ferreting out those seen as too ‘pro-Ukrainian’ is already profoundly illegal, with the details of how criminal charges are concocted, positively terrifying