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Melitopol journalist Iryna Levchenko abducted in 2023 ‘found’ imprisoned in Russian-occupied Donetsk

Although there is now talk of a ‘trial’, there is nothing to suggest that the Russian FSB have even formally charged the journalist despite having held her prisoner since May 2023

Abductions of Ukrainian Women and Girls

ADC Memorial and KhPG submitted analytical material to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances.

Silence—as a form of torture

How and why Russia deliberately deprives Ukrainian prisoners of any information from the Motherland.

Russia resettles ‘veterans’ and their families in occupied Ukraine, while deporting Ukrainians

The chief aim is probably to change the ethnic makeup and instal people more likely than Ukrainians to be loyal to the Russian invaders

Russian invaders abduct young Ukrainian, sentence her to 12.5 years for helping Ukraine

By the end of 2024, almost a third of the massive number of Russian 'treason' convictions were against Ukrainians living on Ukrainian territory, but forced by the invading state to take its citizenship

Children abducted and held for months until their fathers agree to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

While forcing fathers to fight by imprisoning their children as hostages may plummet new depths, Russia’s methods aimed at forcing Ukrainian to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine are also shockingly cynical and evil

Russia kills 74-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner abducted from occupied Enerhodar

Russia bears full responsibility for the torment and death in its captivity of Oleksandr Markov whose health would have already been gravely undermined by being held incommunicado, and certainly denied proper medical care for almost a year

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

Horrific sentences on absurd ‘spying’ charges in occupied Luhansk oblast

Sentences of up to 18 years were passed against Ukrainian citizens, living on Ukrainian territory yet accused of having passed on information about the deployment of the Russian invaders to Ukrainian defenders

From torture to indefinite punitive psychiatry in Russia’s savage persecution of Melitopol Telegram administrator

Mark Kaliush and several other administrators of Ukrainian Telegram channels were seized two years ago and probably tortured for a Russian propaganda video

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

Russia sentences Sevastopol man to 17 years amid massive increase in surreal ‘treason trials'

With the ‘trial’ of Vadym Sorokoletnov, and a huge number of other Ukrainians, held behind closed doors, the only certainty is, tragically, that they will end in ‘conviction’ and a long sentence