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First criminal charges and imprisonment for studying the Bible in Russian-occupied Donbas

While next to nothing is known about this latest victim of Russian persecution on occupied territory, the case is disturbing as it is likely to be Russia's test run of religious persecution, with more arrests almost certain to follow

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

Women increasingly targeted in huge sentences on ‘spying / treason’ charges in Russian-occupied Luhansk region

Even if the victims are not physically tortured, it is near certain that they were abducted, held incommunicado and not given access to independent lawyers before guaranteed 'convictions' and huge sentences on charges of surreal cynicism

War and ‘Russian world’ propaganda instead of learning foreign languages in schools in occupied Ukraine

Russia has already knocked out ‘defence of rights and liberties’, other ‘destructive western ideology’ and is seeking to brainwash children in occupied Ukraine that they should be ready to fight and die for Russia

Russia drops lethal flower petal mines in ongoing terror against civilians in Kherson

Such landmines are clearly targeting civilians as are the Russian drones with which Russia has been found to be committing crimes against humanity in Kherson and Kherson oblast

Seven months of torture for Russian show trial of Ukrainians abducted from occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

Russia calls opposing its invasion ‘international terrorism’ , not its abduction, torture and monstrous sentences against three Ukrainians

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

Mustafa Dzhemilev: Any ‘peace deal violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity will prepare the ground for new Russian invasion

Russia has made no secret of its demands, and any coercion of Ukraine into so-called ‘territorial swapping’ would not only be immoral and in violation of international law, but also deeply dishonest

Russian invaders sentence Ukrainian pensioner to 12.5 years after torturing out ‘confession’ to links with 'British spies'

Serhiy Chebukin is 62 and has almost certainly long been in Russian captivity as he was forced to take part in deranged British spymania propaganda almost 18 months ago

Free people first! An Open Letter to the President of the United States

Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, human rights and press freedom defenders, former political prisoners, and families of those still in detention and captivity appealed to President Trump.

Russia abducts 18-year-old from occupied Melitopol, sentences her two years later to 18 years for photos of FSB

Daria Kulik was just 17 when the Russians invaded her native Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia oblast. They took her prisoner a year later

Final blow to Ukrainians on occupied territory as Russia blocks private calls through WhatsApp and Telegram

Russia is aggressively seeking to block truthful information and contact between Ukrainians that it is unable to control