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Russia confirms torture is state policy through withdrawal from vital European Convention

Russia’s withdrawal from a Convention against Torture which it stopped complying with even minimally in 2022 will not absolve it from liability for its violations, but it is a telling statement

Russian court sentences Memorial Head to 6 years for calling persecuted Ukrainian POWs political prisoners

Russia will not, at least, be able to execute its sentence against Sergei Davidis, unlike the Azov POWs and hundreds of other Ukrainian prisoners of war and political prisoners

Russia bans Internet searches for ‘extremist material’, broadening scope for terror in occupied Ukraine

This is the first time that Russia has introduced prosecution for a Google search, with even Putin chief propagandist indignant, albeit only because it will make denunciations more difficult

Russian FSB given chilling new weapon of repression against Ukrainian political prisoners

Up till now, Russia’s FSB have generally confined their most horrific torture to before their victim was formally charged and remanded in custody. That is likely to change with the dangerous new powers which Russian legislators have given them

New legislation formalizes Russia’s brutal isolation of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

The new provisions are draconian, however Russia’s treatment of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners and POWs has always been savage, with or without norms

Russia charges Memorial head with ‘justifying terrorism’ for calling persecuted Ukrainian POWs political prisoners

Russia first claimed that Ukrainians defending their country were ‘terrorists’ trying to ‘violently seize power’, and is now bringing ‘terrorism’ charges against Sergei Davidis for rightly calling the POWs political prisoners

Duma broadens ‘treason’ charges against anybody opposing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

Russian legislators have dangerously broadened the definition of charges standardly used against Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages, while also extending the range of targets

Russia's new 'elite': hired killers, murderers and violent rapists freed to fight against Ukraine

Pardoned by Putin to kill Ukrainians, those Russian convicted criminals who died are now the subject of memorial plaques in schools and other measures to honour their ‘heroism’

Russia’s Investigative Committee tortures Ukrainians for fabricated ‘trials’, and now demands the death penalty

Aleksandr Bastrykin and Russia’s Investigative Committee have been using torture to fabricate preposterous charges against Ukrainians since 2014, making his call for Putin to reinstate the death penalty chilling

Absence of law and international control

What happens to Ukrainian civilians in Russian captivity.

Russia-Ukraine war: what does filtration mean?

Filtration is a violent, unregulated screening of the personal data of detained people, their social contacts, views and attitudes towards the occupying state, their safety for the authorities or services of the occupying state, as well as their willingness and consent to cooperate with the authorities or services of the occupying state.

Russia's youngest Ukrainian political prisoner convicted of ‘justifying terrorism’ in social media posts written by Russia’s FSB

Illya Hibeskul was imprisoned for almost a year after the FSB decided to concoct charges against the young Ukrainian who had refused Russian citizenship

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