Kremlin enacts law to grab homes and bank accounts of its exiled critics
A formal charge alone can now trigger seizure of property worth many times the underlying fine, with no judge required to approve it.
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Russia is holding at least 100 people in occupied Crimea with no contact with outside world and no lawyer — and no trials
For the same charges that brought 7–10 years before 2022, courts now hand down 10–20, a Ukrainian rights monitor says.
Can “good morals” become a legal weapon in Ukraine’s new Civil Code?
Brussels says reform is “necessary.” It also says quick answers to complex questions are always a problem.
Russia declares nearly 8,000 Luhansk apartments “ownerless” for “nationalization”
Apartments missing from the Russian "state registry," with unpaid utilities, or empty for three months can be illegally seized by occupation authorities.
Russia keeps arresting Crimeans. The count just hit 520
The number of Crimean political prisoners has more than doubled since the full-scale invasion. A welder, a human rights defender, a father of four: three faces of the political repressions.
Ukraine identifies Russians in Bucha: one of them fired at civilian during burial
Another forced a civilian to kneel.
Russia sentenced a Ukrainian journalist to 13 years for a beet juice protest — in absentia. Now it wants her arrested abroad, and Ukraine’s NGOs say it won’t stop there
Twenty-one Ukrainian media outlets and NGOs, including Euromaidan Press, signed a joint condemnation warning that Zemlyana's case is a template Russia will use against Ukrainian journalists and media workers documenting war crimes and exposing the aggressor.
Zelenskyy and human rights activist Matviychuk among 20 inaugural recipients of European Parliament’s order of merit
The European Parliament has its own order of merit now, and its inaugural class of up to 20 runs from a sitting head of state to a basketball MVP — with a Nobel Peace Prize winner, two former chancellors, and a rock band in between.
337 Ukrainian POWs “consciously and brutally” executed by Russia – nearly all others tortured
Ombudsman calls torture a state weapon at UN Human Rights Council session.
Russia’s 36th Brigade takes 50 Ukrainian civilians across the border by force, most of them are men
The Ukrainian military calls it "political provocation," not an operation.
UN General Assembly condemns Russia’s war crimes in occupied Ukraine, demands prisoner access
Resolution strengthens torture provisions, invokes "list of shame" for child killings
Russian court jails 65-year-old teacher for “terrorism” after hiding Ukrainian soldier
Occupation authorities accused her of aiding a plot to assassinate an occupation administration's member in occupied Donetsk, but she denied knowing about such activities.
Russian courts freed two seriously ill Crimean Muslims. Months later, both are back in prison.
One has cancer, the other is blind. Both were re-arrested after brief releases on medical grounds.
Georgia criminalizes masked protests, repeat offenders face prison
Georgia's parliament locked in criminal penalties for protest participation on 31 October, with 80 MPs backing amendments that make a third violation punishable by up to two years in prison.
Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna posthumously named World Press Freedom Hero
Award honors journalist killed in Russian captivity for her fearless reporting from occupied Ukraine
Russia lobbies UN aviation agency to end air sanctions, claims violations of human rights
Russia is pressing the UN’s aviation body to lift sanctions on spare parts and overflights, claiming they violate “human rights,” even as its airlines scramble for Western components and its Belarusian ally faces fresh scrutiny over backdoor transfers.
BBC: Ukrainian civilian freed after years in Russian captivity — his story is one of beatings, starvation, and survival
Journalist Dmytro Khyliuk spent three and a half years in captivity without charges before finally returning home in a rare swap.
Moscow cuts another lifeline to Europe’s human rights system as Putin moves to exit anti-torture convention
The step shields Russian prisons from international inspectors, raising fears for Ukrainian POWs and abducted civilians.
33 Russian guards, medics, commanders: InformNapalm links POW abuse in Mordovia to named Russian staff
The OSINT publication exposes those allegedly complicit in systematic violence against Ukrainian captives at IK-10 colony.
Ukrainian human rights defender Maksym Butkevych shortlisted for Václav Havel Prize
One of Ukraine’s leading voices on human rights spent 913 days in Russian prison.