On 18 February at 10 am, the Russia-controlled Supreme Court of Crimea heard a criminal case against Nariman Dzhelyal, the Deputy Head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis (an elected organ of self-government of the Crimean Tatar people), and...
On 9 March, Vladyslav Yesypenko, a RFE/RL journalist who reported on developments in Crimea, filmed a flower-laying ceremony at the memorial of prominent Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko in Simferopol, the regional capital of Crimea...
12 January is the Day of the Ukrainian political prisoner, established to honor people who were imprisoned on political motives. In 1975, proposed to this day to demonstrate opposition to Soviet repressions against Ukrainian...
Take a peek at exclusive photos from Atelier Soldina, an exposition space in Berlin, which saw the opening of an exhibition featuring the masterpieces of Viktor Shur, a 64-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner incarcerated in the Russian...
Past 24 hours in the war zone Russian hybrid forces launched four attacks on Ukrainian positions. In one of the attacks, a Ukrainian soldier received injury. As of 17:00, December 30, no ceasefire breaches by Russian proxies were recorded....
Most of us will spend the cozy winter holidays with our family and good food. But there are at least 127 Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin who will spend them inside damp prison walls, with prison grub, thousands of kilometers...
On 27 December, judge Yekaterina Khomyakova Petrozavodsk City Court (Karelia, Russia) extended Yury Dmitriev‘s 13-year prison sentence by two years. The 65-year-old prominent Russian historian of Stalin’s terror and human...
“F*cking execute her!” On 19 March 2018, Maryna Chuikova was detained at the Maiorsk checkpoint when going from the occupation zone to Ukraine-controlled territory. The woman planned to visit her two sons and 80-year-old...
What do we know about Ivan Yatskin? On 6 December, Nikolai Polozov, the lawyer of Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin Ivan Yatskin, wrote that his defendant departed from his prison in the Russian prison of Saratov to the Kemerovo...
On 4 September, Pervomayskoye village of Simferopol region of Crimea saw the detention of Nariman Dzhelyal. On 6 September, a Russia-controlled court in Simferopol heard his mock case, in which the defendant pleaded not guilty. Apart from...
In October 2022, a few weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles with...
