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Russians cause abducted Melitopol woman’s death, hold her husband incommunicado for 3 years

Russia has not admitted to holding Oleh Plachkov, although he was seized by the Russians together with his wife, Tetiana Plachkova in September 2023 and was not released after her death in captivity

Russia uses Gestapo-like torture for ‘international terrorism’ trial and massive sentences over death of a Ukrainian traitor

Volodymyr Teteriev's torturers boasted that the only difference between them and the Gestapo was in the name. The savage torture they applied was used to sentence Teteriev to life and four other Ukrainians to 17 and 18 years

Ukrainian sentenced to 16 years for resisting Russian occupation gets new sentence for ‘extremist’ tattoo

Maksym Vorobiov and Maksym Timofieiev received monstrously long sentences over rail partisan acts (which they may or may not have taken part in )

Tortured but unbroken: Four Ukrainians expose Russian fabrication of trial over death of a traitor

As well as a prosecutor and 'judge' implicated in multiple sentences against political prisoners, Russia has used 'lawyers' willing to collaborate with the 'investigators' and ignore evident use of torture

KHPG, Memorial & OVD.info added to ‘List of terrorists & extremists’ for reporting on repression in Russia and occupied Ukraine

The move is clearly aimed at silencing voices in defence of Russia’s ever-mounting number of political prisoners, including those from occupied parts of Ukraine.

Five Ukrainians tortured for ‘confessions’ because the FSB couldn’t catch the partisans who killed a Russian-installed traitor

It is very likely that Oleh Andrushak, Pavlo Borodin, Viacheslav Voronko, Mykhailo Shpakovsky, Mykola Kolomiyets were abducted and are facing up to life imprisonment because the FSB had to arrest somebody

Violations of Ukrainian Children’s Rights in the Context of War: A Publication by ADC Memorial Brussels and KHPG Marking dated to the June’s Child Protection Days

To mark International Children’s Day on June 1 and International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression on June 4, ADC Memorial Brussels and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group have prepared a publication on violations of the rights of Ukrainian children—victims of the aggressive war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine. 

61-year-old Ukrainian tells Russian court how he was forced to listen, while bound to a chair, as his wife was tortured

This is Act II in Russia's fabricated 'trial' on surreal charges claiming plans to use 'chemical weapons of mass destruction' against Diliaver Kurshutov, 61-year-old Hennadiy Kapralov and his 53-year-old wife Olha Kapralova

New propaganda film on how Russia ‘protects’ the Ukrainian children whose lives it destroyed

The film was initiated by Maria Lvova-Belova who faces war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court together with Putin over Russia's treatment of Ukrainian children and a project linked with neo-Nazi Alexei Petrov

Widow of Mariupol defender sentenced by Russian occupation ‘court’ to 14 years for ‘spying’

Anna Bieliaieva, who worked as an administrator of a rural hospital, would have been at risk from when the Russians invaded Berdiansk, because of her partner, who died defending Mariupol, and her brother who is serving in Ukraine's Armed Forces

New Russian school textbook shows unoccupied Ukrainian territory as ‘Russia’

Obvious questions, like why Russia is regularly bombing cities that are purportedly part of the Russian Federation and using drones to hunt down residents. could get children or their parents in trouble

Military medic Oleksandr Krokhmaliuk tortured to death in Russian captivity

Oleksandr Krokhmaliuk was working to save lives, and should never have been held prisoner. He is one of 406 Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages who have died in Russian captivity through torture or the failure to provide medical care