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Savagely tortured, then sentenced by the Russians to 13 years for letters to her Ukrainian defender son

There is something especially monstrous about fabricating charges against a mother because of her letters to her son, defending Ukraine

Russia sentences Ukrainian military pensioner to 18 years after itself admitting there were no grounds to imprison him

Victor Kuzmenko was seized for a second time when merely trying to rejoin his family after the Russians came for him in Mariupol and held him prisoner for 18 months

Russia stages third ‘trial’ of Ukrainian POW, adds 2 years to illegal 18-year sentence for comments about Russian war crimes

Anton Saikhiev has been imprisoned since May 2022, with Russia meting out particularly savage reprisals against defenders of Mariupol

Russia passes life sentence on ‘treason’ charges against Ukrainian accused of acts of resistance

Even if Oleksandr Skrabunov did have anything to do with the killing of a representative of the occupying power, the latter was a legitimate target and this had nothing to do with 'terrorism' or 'treason'

55-year-old Crimean seized at Russian airport and tortured to fabricate treason charges over donations to Ukraine

Victoria Serhieieva is the latest of a number of Ukrainian citizens effectively abducted and held on fabricated pretexts while the FSB concocted surreal ‘treason’ charges

France arrests pro-Russian militant for war crimes over torture of Ukrainian hostages at Izolyatsia prison in occupied Donetsk

Ukraine will not be seeking Yevhen Brazhnikov's extradition but will provide any assistance required in a trial that is extremely welcome, if belated

Help to #FreeIrynaHorobtsova - seized by the Russians on her birthday, sentenced to 10.5 years for Ukrainian patriotism

Iryna could have left Kherson after the Russian invasion. She stayed, helping her compatriots and openly demonstrating her opposition to the invasion, for which she is paying a huge price

Yevhen Zakharov: ‘In no country have I seen such an awareness and vocal support for Ukraine as in Sweden’

In mid-May, the project, funded by the Swedish Institute (SI) and implemented by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in partnership with the Swedish organization Östgruppen för demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter, is coming to an end.

Valeriy Vakulenko sentenced to 18 years for destroying a Russian invaders' tank in March 2022

Even by Russia's very low standards, the lawlessness in this case seems quite staggering

Only one Mother’s Day wish after almost 9 years of torture – Free my son, Victor Dzytsiuk!

Victor’s parents have lost their home, his father is gravely ill and Victor’s own health must have suffered from five months of savage torture at the Izolyatsia secret prison

Russia returns the bodies of 375 POWs and civilian hostages tortured to death or denied medical care

Russia also often has to be persuaded to take its own citizens, captured while fighting in Ukraine, back, making it even harder for Ukraine to secure the release in particular of civilian hostages

Melitopol hostage sentenced to 26 years for supposed attempts on the life of a Russian-installed traitor

Four men were seized on the same day in August 2023, yet the sentences against three of the men - Serhiy Chumachenko; Serhiy Dziamka and Oleksiy Popadeikin - were passed after separate fake trials and nothing is known about Petro Popadeikin

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