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Trafim Barysau, Dzmitry Zakharoshka, Anastasiya Klimenka, Aliaksandra Pulinovich, Siarhei Zhyhaliou, Maryia Misiuk: The six teenagers were accused of forming an anarchist cell

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Shot knees and a death sentence: how the Belarusian regime punishes people for supporting Ukraine

More than 200 political prisoners are behind bars for opposing Russia's war—from teenagers who spray-painted slogans to railway partisans who disrupted Russian troop trains.

byAlexander Moisseenko

Crimean political prisoners in court in 2019: the front from left - Muslim Aliev, Vadim Siruk, Emir-Usein Kuku, Refat Alimov, at the back, from left - Envir Bekirov, Arsen Dzhepparov. All of them (except for Dzhepparov and Alimov) are still in custody as of today. Photo: Crimean Solidarity

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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.

byAlexander Moisseenko

russia sentenced ukrainian journalist 13 years beet juice protest — absentia now wants interpol arrest ukraine's ngos say won't stop · post iryna zemlyana media expert institute mass information (left)

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Russian Aggression

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.

byYuri Zoria

Vitalii Shabunin Anti-Corruption Action Center

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“A new low”: Ukrainian anti-corruption activist accuses law enforcement of leaking his intimate photos as “retaliation”

Earlier, Ukrainian activist accused Zelenskyy of corruption crackdown.

byOlena Mukhina

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Tallinn bans Russian prosecutor and judge who sentenced Narva museum head to 10 years in prison over anti-Putin posters

The installation appeared on Narva Castle walls facing Ivangorod during Russia's Victory Day celebrations broadcast.

byOlena Mukhina

More than 8,300 inmates have already joined Ukraine's armed forces, with officials projecting up to 30% of the country's 37,000 prisoners could eventually serve

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Ukrainian female journalist sentenced to seven years in Russian jail urges EU to act as guards force prisoners to stand for hours in freezing cold

She also endures nights without sleep.

byOlena Mukhina

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Fifty Ukrainian NGOs rise in defense of Ukrainian top anti-corruption fighter Shabunin, charged with draft dodging and fraud

Activists call the case against Shabunin “politically motivated” and warn it risks silencing democracy.

byOlena Mukhina

political persecution

Shot knees and a death sentence: how the Belarusian regime punishes people for supporting Ukraine

Russia keeps arresting Crimeans. The count just hit 520

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

“A new low”: Ukrainian anti-corruption activist accuses law enforcement of leaking his intimate photos as “retaliation”

Tallinn bans Russian prosecutor and judge who sentenced Narva museum head to 10 years in prison over anti-Putin posters

Ukrainian female journalist sentenced to seven years in Russian jail urges EU to act as guards force prisoners to stand for hours in freezing cold

Fifty Ukrainian NGOs rise in defense of Ukrainian top anti-corruption fighter Shabunin, charged with draft dodging and fraud

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