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Anna Bazikalo sentenced to 16 years two years after her abduction from Russian occupied Luhansk oblast

Even by Russian standards, the sentence was brutal and handed down after almost two years of being held incommunicado

Russia sentences former Ukrainian defender to 19 years after torturing out a backdated ‘confession’

This latest fake trial of a Ukrainian for defending his country is especially cynical as Dmytro Nosenko’s captors tortured out a grotesque ‘confession’ to involvement in a ‘terrorist organization’

Russia imposes criminal liability for denying previously unknown ‘genocide of the Soviet people’

The new law will further silence historical discussion and strengthen punitive measures already used against those who speak honestly about Soviet crimes, including the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people

Melitopol IT specialist sentenced to 20 years after Russians torture out a ‘confession’ to ‘terrorist plans’

Artyom Krasko was abducted almost two and a half years ago from his native Melitopol, with it likely that he was held incommunicado without any procedural status

Russian judge convicted of war crimes over massive sentence against Ukrainian POW for defending his country

Sergei Obraztsov was well-aware that he was in violation of the Geneva Convention and fundamental principles of law when he sentenced 18-year-old Vladyslav Plakhotnik to 18 years for serving in a Ukrainian Armed Forces regiment

Russia tortures two young Melitopol schoolboys to death, passes long sentences against three other lads

It is near certain that all five lads, aged 16 and 17, were tortured, with Viktor Azarovsky, Oleh Shokol and Denys Vasyliuk later subjected to a predetermined 'trial'. Danylo Dakhov and Pavlo Hrymak died in Russian captivity

Students in occupied Crimea and Russia coerced, conned and threatened into going to fight against Ukraine

Russia is enlisting educational institutions as accomplices in trying to trick or force students to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia sentences Kherson oblast woman to 10 years just after UN Commission blasts such ‘predetermined verdicts'

The ‘trial’ and sentence against Olena Nishanova were identical to those against Iryna Hedzyk, Olena Kosenko and very many others, with the UN Commission damning the brazen violation of all principles of a fair trial

Russia’s highest court upholds terror against Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employees

The 'judges' chose not to ask why Serhiy Korzh and his twin brother had been abducted & held incommunicado, with Serhiy, a Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant engineer tortured into saying he had directed Ukrainian military fire on the plant

29 civilians abducted from Kherson oblast were tortured to death or died from lack of treatment in Russian captivity

An important MIHR study has followed how Russia first used a totally unsuited checkpoint as a prison for torturing abducted hostages and then integrated it into its penal system

I repeated it like a prayer: ‘Donbas is Ukraine!’

We share the story of how Horlivka teacher Natalia Shilo was held captive and later released. In the toughest times, her natural sense of justice, anger toward the occupiers, and... a higher mathematics workbook helped her survive.

Russia’s deportation and enforced disappearances of Ukrainian children are crimes against humanity – UN Commission

Despite the lies and backtracking after Putin’s arrest warrant, Russia made no effort to find children’s relatives and has not returned 80% of those children whose cases the Commission documented