Remembering Soviet atrocities: Solovki and Sandarmokh
Ukrainian historians and activists, who have been travelling every year to the Solovetsky Islands in the extreme north…
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News about Ukrainian political prisoners and hostages.
Russia bans Crimean Tatars by banning the Mejlis
On Thursday, 29 September 2016, the hearing of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the complaint…
Who is Ilmi Umerov, the Crimean Tatar Russia so fears?
After Russia illegally annexed Crimea in March 2014, the local officials were offered to pledge allegiance to the…
“Crimean saboteurs” – latest victims of Kremlin’s hostage strategy
The escalations in occupied Crimea on 7-8 August, in the course of which Russia has accused Ukraine of staging "terror…
Ukrainian political prisoner Yuriy Ilchenko escapes from Russian-occupied Crimea
When one summer morning Sophia came to work, she saw a lean man at her office door. For…
Publicity needed to prevent torture of Ukrainians detained in “Crimea saboteurs” case
On 10 August 2016, Russia's FSB announced that the special services of the Russian Federation detained a Ukrainian citizen…
Gennadii Afanasyev: Klykh is in very serious condition
Why is there so little information about Sentsov and Kolchenko? - …because they’re very brave and don’t want…
Tortured, threatened with death, but unbroken: Kremlin hostage Vyhivskyi | #LetMyPeopleGo
Gennadiy Afanasyev was detained by the Russian occupation authorities of Crimea in August 2014 and was accused of…
Crimean Tatars respond to persecution with collective prayer
Crimean Tatars have gathered for D’ua, a collective supplication for Crimean political prisoners, especially those arrested for activities…
Lawyer: Karpyuk was tortured the most. They needed a case against a real banderite
Ukrainian political prisoners Yuriy Soloshenko and Hennadiy Afanasyev were exchanged for Ukrainians, and not Russians. Moscow isn’t interested…
The case of Soloshenko: how Russia accused a 74-year old Ukrainian pensioner of spying
Yuriy Soloshenko and Gennadiy Afanasyev, two Ukrainians who were illegally imprisoned in Russia on political charges, were returned…
Afanasyev and Soloshenko: How the FSB breaks prisoners
Released on June 14, Ukrainian political prisoners Gennadiy Afanasyev and Yuriy Soloshenko meet us at the hospital where…
Crimea occupation authorities plan “Islamic extremist” show trial against Crimean Tatars – Mejlis head
Refat Chubarov, head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, stated that the Russian self-proclaimed authorities are planning a big show trial in…
Ukrainian prisoner Oleksandr Kolchenko meets with mother
Oleksandr Kolchenko from Crimea, who is held prisoner in Russia, met with his mother for three days. This…
Nadiya’s 3rd day of freedom: visiting fallen comrades and getting a new mission
Ukrainian news sites report that on her third day after returning to Ukraine from illegal imprisonment in Putin's…
“We will live a dignified life in Ukraine as it should be” -Savchenko’s first words at home
After 707 days of imprisonment, the kidnapped and unlawfully convicted on fabricated charges Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko was…
Days of solidarity with Ukrainians jailed for protesting Putin’s Crimean Anschluss announced
Oleg Sentsov, Olexander Kolchenko, Hennadiy Afanasiev and Oleksiy Chyrniy have been held in Russian jails for two years…
Heroes past and present: Remembering Bolotnaya and Russia’s Victory Day
Moscow has been abuzz in "Victory Day" fever for weeks. Toddlers, puppies and tanks are draped in the…
Help a Ukrainian political prisoner’s video-alibi reach his jury in Chechnya
A Russian court in Chechnya is accusing two Ukrainians of killing Russian soldiers in the war in Chechnya in…
Russia’s “Chechen” show trial of Ukrainians, explained | #LetMyPeopleGo
On May 11, the final stage of the trial of two Ukrainians, Mykola Karpiuk and Stanislav Klykh, will…