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Terror unrelenting as Russian courts uphold 15-year sentences for ‘treason’ against an invader

Niyara Ermambetova was seized just days after her mother’s funeral, with her elderly father now left to look after her two children. It is not known when Oksana Invanchenko was abducted, but she has four children

55-year-old from Russian-occupied Skadovsk sentenced to 12 years for supporting Ukraine

Natalia Povietkina is one of almost two thousand civilians effectively abducted since Russia's invasion of parts of Kherson oblast. Some have been tortured but then released. some were tortured to death and many are imprisoned on grotesque charges

Children abducted from occupied Ukraine 'offered' on state adoption site in Russia

The new study, which proves the lie to Russia’s denial that it is permanently deporting Ukrainian children comes soon after a UN Commission report identified such acts as both war crimes and crimes against humanity

Putin rubberstamped indefinite imprisonment without charges for opposing Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

The secret ‘decision’ allowing enforcement bodies to abduct and hold people incommunicado was issued just two weeks after the full-scale invasion began

Berdiansk pastor and volunteer sentenced by the Russians to 22 years for fictitious 'act of sabotage'

Victor Bondarenko is not receiving medical treatment for several serious conditions and his daughter warns that each day in Russian captivity is jeopardizing her father's life

Russian occupation ‘court’ passes massive sentences in bulk for donations to Ukraine’s defenders

Any article of Russia’s criminal code will do since the real ‘crime’ against all the Ukrainians sentenced to 12, 13 or even 17 years, is that of patriotism and support for their own Ukrainian Armed Forces

Ukrainian Women in Captivity: Thoughts about Their Families Help Them to Survive

Hundreds of Ukrainian women are in Russian captivity. We spoke with the head of the Kharkiv office of the KHPG, Tamila Bespala, about the conditions in which the Russians are holding female prisoners and what help they need after returning home.

Brutal Russian reprisals against young student sentenced to 9 years for her pro-Ukrainian position

Yulia Sokolova was just 17 when the Russian invaders first seized her and then subjected her to daily 'interrogations', before the staged 'trial' with possibly no hearings, and conviction guaranteed

Russian invaders sentence Tetiana Deviatkina to 6 years for criticizing them on social media

Tetiana Deviatkina, who has a young daughter,, and Victor Voloshchuk are facing long sentences for expressing opposition to Russian occupation on social media

Russia’s supreme court finds Ukrainian guilty of ‘international terrorism’ for opposing invaders

An invading army abducted Vitaliy Rastorhuev and Volodymyr Kryvtsun in July 2022, holding them incommunicado and likely torturing them until the end of December that year

Young Mariupol woman sentenced to 13 years for donating to Ukraine’s Army after her POW husband died in Russian captivity

Russia's huge sentences against Ukrainians for donations to Ukraine's defenders are always monstrous, but that against 25-year-old Angelina Skyba defies belief

Russia sentences Crimean Tatar prisoner of war to 20 years for serving in Ukraine’s Armed Forces

Seiran Asanov was accused of ‘involvement in a terrorist organization’ and of ‘treason’ for defending his own country against the Russian invaders