Crimean Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to six years for refusing to renounce his faith Russia has, once again, brought repression against an entire family, with Vitaliy Buryk not persecuted because of 'extremist activities', but because he continued to practise his faith

Crimean Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to six years for refusing to renounce his faith
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Russia readmitted to Paralympics after Heraskevych banned for remembering the Ukrainian athletes it killed The decision to readmit Russia to any Olympic event is an outrage and profound affront to all victims of Russia’s aggression, including the slain athletes whom Vladyslav Heraskevych was punished for h...

Russia readmitted to Paralympics after Heraskevych banned for remembering the Ukrainian athletes it killed
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Russian soldier sentenced to life for killing two Ukrainian POWs in cold blood Vladimir Ivanov is the third Russian to have been convicted of killing Ukrainian prisoners of war, with all three saying that the order to kill had come from their commander

Russian soldier sentenced to life for killing two Ukrainian POWs in cold blood
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Russia’s FSB to receive unlimited power to block access to Internet and mobile phones in occupied Ukraine The FSB will be able to block whoever they like, with no pretence that this is for security reasons

Russia’s FSB to receive unlimited power to block access to Internet and mobile phones in occupied Ukraine
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Russia uses illegal ruling outlawing a different ‘Crimean Tatar Battalion’ for huge sentences against Ukrainian POWs Bohdan Musikhin is one of 14 Ukrainian prisoners of war declaring political prisoners after Russian passed monstrous sentences against them for having served their country

Russia uses illegal ruling outlawing a different ‘Crimean Tatar Battalion’ for massive sentences against Ukrainian POWs
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Russia readmitted to Paralympics after Heraskevych banned for remembering the Ukrainian athletes it killed The decision to readmit Russia to any Olympic event is an outrage and profound affront to all victims of Russia’s aggression, including the slain athletes whom Vladyslav Heraskevych was punished for h...

Russia readmitted to Paralympics after Heraskevych banned for remembering the Ukrainian athletes it killed
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Kherson father and daughter abducted, tortured and given huge sentences for trying to escape Russian occupation The Russian invaders have yet again opted for easy victims - Oleksiy Demianenko and his very young daughter, Anzhelika, who only tried to leave occupied Kherson oblast

Kherson father and daughter abducted, tortured and given huge sentences for trying to escape Russian occupation
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Arrested Russian archaeologist could be tried in Poland, if Ukraine’s extradition bid fails Russian academics are being advised not to visit ‘unfriendly’ countries – like Poland which has heeded Ukraine’s request and detained Alexander Butyagin for his involvement in Russia’s illegal excavat...

Arrested Russian archaeologist could be tried in Poland, if Ukraine’s extradition bid fails
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‘Witness’ changes story to fit prosecution in Russia’s ‘trial’ of 75-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Ananiev This is not the first time that huge discrepancies in 'testimony' have pointed to fabricated charges and duress, with 'judges' at the Southern District Military Court turning a blind eye

‘Witness’ changes story to fit prosecution in Russia’s ‘trial’ of 75-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Ananiev
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Crimean faces up to 20-year sentence for ‘treason against Russia’ after donating money to help Ukraine Kyrylo Kostyhov was detained, subjected to fake administrative prosecutions until the FSB came up with 'treason' charges over donations totalling 22 euros

Crimean faces up to 20-year sentence for ‘treason against Russia’ after donating money to help Ukraine
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Armed terror and planted ‘prohibited literature’ in new attack on Crimean Tatar family Russia's FSB came for two Crimean Tatars on 12 February, leaving children deeply traumatized. Nariman Seitaliev is in custody, while Yunus Suleimanov has disappeared

Armed terror and planted ‘prohibited literature’ against Crimean Tatar family
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Crimean women face prison sentences on ‘extremism’ charges for studying the Bible The armed 'searches' and interrogations of Halyna Pryvalova and Anna Moroz were aimed solely at 'proving' that the women were practising Jehovah's Witnesses, something that neither woman would ever de...

Crimean #JehovahsWitnesses Halyna Pryvalova and Anna Moroz face prison sentences on ‘extremism’ charges for studying the Bible
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Russia sentences 70-year-old pensioner from occupied Tokmak to 15 years for supporting Ukraine All of Russia’s sentences against Ukrainian patriots are shocking, but here the aggressor state first forced Svitlana Loi to take its citizenship and is now almost certainly putting her life in danger

Russia sentences 70-year-old pensioner from occupied Tokmak to 15 years for supporting Ukraine
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When Russia first turned its terror against children “The real terrorists are those who burst into the homes of people peacefully sleeping, who intimidate people who tell the truth; those who have turned Crimea into a military base

When Russia first turned its terror against children in occupied Crimea
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Ukrainian POWs forced to exhume the dead in Mariupol, with the Russians looting the bodies Serhiy Hrytsiv was first forced, together with other POWs, to retrieve the bodies of civilians, including children, from buildings Russia had destroyed, and then tortured for one of the aggressor stat...

Ukrainian POWs forced to exhume the dead in Mariupol, with the Russians looting the bodies
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Abducted, likely tortured and sentenced to 10 years for opposing Russian occupation of Kakhovka Iryna Hedzyk had been held incommunicado for almost 18 months when Russia announced 'spying charges' and then, two weeks later, a 10-year sentence

Iryna Hedzyk abducted, likely tortured and sentenced to 10 years for opposing Russia’s occupation of Kakhovka
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Crimean abducted, then sentenced to 18 years after criticizing Russia’s war against Ukraine Taras Khudak was abducted at least six months before Russia came up with suspect 'treason' charges, almost certainly aimed at terrorizing the public into silence and obedience

Crimean abducted, then sentenced to 18 years after criticizing Russia’s war against Ukraine
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Russia’s terror by family: father and son get huge sentences on fabricated ‘Ukrainian saboteur’ charges The FSB have been fabricating 'saboteur' charges on occupied territory since soon after Russia's invasion of Crimea, with these 'trials' of Volodymyr Perzhynsky and his son Mark very likely from the s...

Russia’s terror by family: father and son get huge sentences on fabricated ‘Ukrainian saboteur’ charges
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‘Guilty of not betraying Ukraine’. Russia’s supreme court imposes 13-year sentence against Oksana Hladkykh

‘Guilty of not betraying Ukraine’. Russia’s supreme court imposes 13-year sentence against Oksana Hladkykh
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Russia ‘arrests’ Crimean mother of two 15 months after abducting and hiding her News of the charges against Sakha Manhubi coincided with yet another massive sentence against Yevhen Hudenkov who was held incommunicado and probably tortured for almost the same amount of time

Russia ‘arrests’ Crimean mother of two on ‘treason’ charges 15 months after abducting and hiding her
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Young Crimean deported from Kazakhstan to face huge sentence in Russia for donating money to Ukraine All such arrests and huge sentences against Ukrainians for supporting their own country are shocking, but here there is also the chilling level of collaboration between Russia and Kazakhstan

Young Crimean deported from Kazakhstan to face huge sentence in Russia for donating money to Ukraine
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Ukrainian prisoners of war tortured to death in Russian captivity Bohdan Usenko and Andriy Zdorenko were taken prisoner while defending Mariupol and died in Russian prisons, almost certainly because of the torture to which they were subjected

Ukrainian prisoners of war tortured to death in Russian captivity
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Russia sentences son of prominent Zaporizhzhia farmer to 15 years, after abducting father & son Although the only massive sentence yet reported was against 25-year-old Mark Perzhynsky, it may well have been his father who was targeted for his refusal to collaborate with the invaders

Russia sentences son of prominent Zaporizhzhia farmer to 15 years, after abducting father & son
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Savagely tortured ‘Kherson Nine’ sentenced to 155 years in grotesque Russian show trial The Russian aggressor state, while illegally occupying Kherson, abducted the nine Ukrainians from their homes, tortured them and came up with surreal charges of ‘international terrorism’

Savagely tortured ‘Kherson Nine’ sentenced to 155 years in grotesque Russian show trial
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Increasingly absurd charges used for Russia’s monstrous sentences against Ukrainians on occupied territory Why bother with credibility when sentences are guaranteed and when lawlessness only heightens the maximum terror against the population?

Increasingly absurd charges used for Russia’s monstrous sentences against Ukrainians on occupied territory
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Russia guns down more civilians, attacks passenger train while TV propagandists gloat that Ukrainians are freezing Russian drones created an inferno, killing passengers on a train in Kharkiv oblast, in just one of multiple and deliberate attacks on innocent civilians

Russia guns down more civilians, attacks passenger train while TV propagandists gloat that Ukrainians are freezing
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Demand Russia obeys its own laws and releases blind Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Sizikov! Please sign the petition and circulate it further. Russia’s imprisonment of Oleksandr Sizikov is in clear violation of Russia’s own legislation and publicity could just help at least get Oleksandr re...

Demand Russia obeys its own laws and releases blind Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Sizikov!
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Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting - bellingcat Bellingcat has analysed video of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The footage appears to contradict statements made by the Department of Homeland Security.

Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

Russia fabricates charges to imprison Crimean Tatar activists and as weapon for deportation from their homeland Russia has used horrific sentences in reprisal against those civic journalists and activists who refused to be silenced or to leave occupied Crimea. Now it is cynically using such fabricated charges ...

Russia fabricates charges to imprison Crimean Tatar activists and as weapon for deportation from their homeland
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Russia stages third ‘trial’ and 28-year sentence against Ukrainian prisoner of war Russia is using an absurd and internationally condemned supreme court ruling as pretext for accusing Ukrainian prisoners of war of ‘terrorism’ for defending their country against invaders

Russia stages third ‘trial’ and 28-year sentence against Ukrainian prisoner of war
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