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Abducted Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska went on hunger strike in notorious Russian prison

18+ hour, 56+ min ago  (422+ words) Anastasia Hlukhovska is held incommunicado in the same Siberian remand prison where fellow journalist Victoria Roshchyna and Dniprorudne Mayor Yevhen Matvieiev died after being subjected to torture One released prisoner has confirmed that he saw Hlukhovska at SIZO No. 1 when…...

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Three children orphaned for Russia's new Crimean "treason trial' and huge sentence

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (327+ words) In its persecution of Svitlana Kolomiyets, Russia is again shattering children's lives for lawless 'trials' of Ukrainian citizens from occupied territory on supposed "spying' or "treason' charges. Zarema Bariieva from the Crimean Tatar Resource Centre reports that Svitlana Kolomiyets was…...

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

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (486+ words) 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 Oleksiy Kyrychenko (b. 16. 09. 1990); Oleksandr Liakhovchenko…...

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

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (283+ words) Maksym Vorobiov and Maksym Timofieiev received monstrously long sentences over rail partisan acts (which they may or may not have taken part in ) As reported, two Ukrainians from occupied Melitopol - Maksym Vorobiov (b. 3 February 1991) and Maksym Timofieiev'were abducted by the Russians…...

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

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (561+ words) 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 While "guilty" verdicts and long sentences were guaranteed when Russian…...

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12-year sentence over abduction and savage torture of slain Euromaidan activist Yury Verbytsky

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (447+ words) Yury Verbytsky was abducted, tortured for nine hours and left to die in a forest outside Kyiv when the temperature was around minus 10 "C Even if the immediate cause of death was hypothermia, those who abandoned him in such a…...

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

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (554+ words) 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 In his address to the court, Hennadiy Kapralov…...

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The Expert Opinion (Amicus Curiae) of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in Criminal Proceedings No. 42025000000001123

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (318+ words) The Civil Organisation "Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group" (hereinafter " the KHPG) was approached by a Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Yuliia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (hereinafter " the Applicant), with a request to examine the materials of criminal proceedings Following its examination, the…...

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Russia brings new "treason" charges against young Crimean Tatar political prisoner after months of torture

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (452+ words) The FSB have resorted to both physical torture and to terrorization of Mamut Belyalov's family New charges, this time of "treason, have been brought against 27-year-old Mamut Belyalov." It is, unfortunately, near certain that only the article of Russias criminal…...

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Death sentence without witnesses in Russia's latest conveyor-belt trial of Crimean Tatar political prisoners

3+ week, 17+ hour ago  (427+ words) Not only were the sentences particularly brutal, but they were handed down without warning, thus making it impossible for family and human rights activists to attend or, at least, stand outside in solidarity The court then provides the sentences clearly…...

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