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Russia’s highest court approves abduction and breathtakingly lawless 10.5-year sentence against Ukrainian patriot Iryna Horobtsova

Three Russian or Russian occupation 'courts' have seen no problem with passing a huge sentence for 'spying' despite the most compelling of 'alibis', namely that they had abducted Iryna Horobtsova 11 months earlier

Ukrainian journalists identify key perpetrators of horrific Russian war crimes in Yahidne

The Russians who used 369 residents of Yahidne, including many children, as human shields, holding them prisoner in an overcrowded school basement without enough air, tried to leave no traces of their identity. They failed

Russia bombs hospitals, schools and apartment blocks, while building more prisons in occupied Ukraine

The aggressor state’s priorities have always been propaganda and repression with FSB and ‘police’ far more concerned with persecuting those supporting Ukraine than in fighting crime

Support Nadin Geissler!

The team at the Lithuanian charity foundation Action4Life — are launching the international campaign #Action4Nadin in support of Nadezhda Rossinskaya (Nadin Geissler), who has been sentenced in Russia to 22 years in prison for providing humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine. KHPG joined the campaign.

Russian ‘judges’ rubberstamp huge conveyor belt sentences on insane ‘terrorism’ charges against Ukrainian POWs

Russia is using obedient 'judges' to claim that men, defending their country, are somehow 'terrorists'

Ukrainians in occupied Ukraine without Russian citizenship labelled ‘foreigners’ and face deportation

The Russian invaders have already staged a few videoed ‘deportations’ from occupied Ukraine. Now any Ukrainian who has withstood the pressure to take Russian passports will face deportation

Why is Russia hiding 77-year-old Spanish volunteer abducted from occupied Ukraine in 2022?

If the reason for secrecy this time is that Mariano Garcia Calatayud [Mario] died in Russian captivity, then Russia bears full responsibility and should be made to answer for it

Russia sentences Ukrainian POW to 20 years for defending Ukraine in ‘Crimean Tatar Battalion’

Russia’s authorities appear unsure what they got banned, with this in no way obstructing politically motivated sentences like that against Serhiy Yatskov

16-17-year sentences for telling Ukraine’s defenders about Russian invaders in Luhansk oblast

It is likely that Lisa Smirnova and Artem Matvieiev were both abducted and held incommunicado for a long time before Russia came up with ‘spying trials’ used in part to terrorize others on occupied territory

New ban on Internet searches and attempts to bypass Russia’s information blockade in occupied Ukraine

Russia is systematically creating an atmosphere of fear on occupied territory, with the denunciations and self-censorship encouraged by the new legislation serving to deepen the information vacuum and strengthen control

“Travesty of justice” condemned as second Melitopol journalist gets 15-year sentence for reporting the truth about Russian occupation

Reporters without Borders are not alone in seeing the horrific sentences and targeting of pro-Ukrainian Telegram channels as aimed at criminalizing independent journalism and terrorizing the population

Melitopol journalist abducted, tortured and sentenced to 16 years for pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel

The abduction of courageous young Ukrainians and Russia's clear intention to sentence them all to long terms of imprisonment are clearly about crushing independent sources of information and terrorising the population