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ECHR orders Russia to pay compensation to Crimean Tatars arrested and prosecuted for peaceful protest
11+ hour, 2+ min ago (413+ words) Russia will doubtless flout the European Court of Human Rights ruling, but the clear articulation of its lawless repression is, nonetheless, important The European Court of Human Rights [ECHR] has found that Russia violated the rights of 12 Crimean Tatars who…...
Melitopol hostage sentenced to 26 years for supposed attempts on the life of a Russian-installed traitor
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (598+ words) 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 Serhiy Chumachenko…...
Crimean pensioner sentenced to six years for social media comments against Russian aggression
1+ week, 6+ day ago (396+ words) The comment might rile the Russian regime, but Serhiy Obushny wanted Ukrainian drones to hit a military target unlike Russian drones used constantly to kill civlians Russia's Southern District Military Court has sentenced 63-year-old Serhiy Obushny from Kerch in occupied…...
Russia abducts Crimean Tatar trying to see dying aunt and accuses her of "treason" for donations to Ukrainian Army
2+ week, 5+ day ago (490+ words) 43-year-old Diana Havryliuk has three children, with the younger two still not aware why their mother disappeared months ago Diana Havryliuk (n'e Abdurashitova) is originally from Crimea but met her husband Andriy Havryliuk while working in Kyiv and remained there…...
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1+ mon, 20+ hour ago (13+ words) Ukrainian Women in Captivity: Thoughts about Their Families Help Them to Survive'khpg. org...
Russian invaders sentence Tetiana Deviatkina to 6 years for criticizing them on social media
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (340+ words) Tetiana Deviatkina, who has a young daughter, , and Victor Voloshchuk are facing long sentences for expressing opposition to Russian occupation on social media In announcing sentence just four months later, the court's press service said that Deviatkina had been found…...
Russia's FSB report the "arrest' of a young mother 18 months after they abducted her in occupied Crimea
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (456+ words) The videoed 'confession' was doubtless extracted, almost certainly through torture or threats, during the 15 months when Sakha Manhubi was held incommunicado in an FSB-controlled prison The only element that is different in this case is the claim that, again on…...
Young Mariupol woman sentenced to 13 years for donating to Ukraine's Army after her POW husband died in Russian captivity
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (465+ words) 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 A second charge of "state treason" under Article 275 of Russia"s criminal code because of the Russian citizenship that…...
Ukrainian sentenced to 20 years for "wanting to blow up railway" used for Russia"s war against Ukraine
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (187+ words) Andriy Diachenko may or may not have been a "railway partisan, but he is undoubtedly a victim of Russias brazen persecution of Ukrainians on illegally occupied territory It seems very likely that this case is no exception." Diachenko was, nonetheless,…...
Anna Bazikalo sentenced to 16 years two years after her abduction from Russian occupied Luhansk oblast
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (358+ words) Even by Russian standards, the sentence was brutal and handed down after almost two years of being held incommunicado Markivka raion came under Russian occupation in early 2022, with the invaders swiftly imposing conditions that have made it near impossible to…...