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Ukrainian religious scholar who survived Russian captivity dies at the age of 69
In Kyiv, people said goodbye to Ukrainian scientist and religious scholar Ihor Kozlovsky, who died on 6 September 2023. The funeral and memorial services were held in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery on 9 September 2023.
Political prisoner returns home after 7 years
Political prisoner Arsen Dzhepparov has returned home today after being 7 years in Russia’s prison. His daughter Evelina…
How Russia fabricated the case against Crimean Tatar leader Dzhelyal
On 18 February at 10 am, the Russia-controlled Supreme Court of Crimea heard a criminal case against Nariman…
Russia sentences RFE/RL freelancer to six years in first case of torture of professional journalist in Crimea
On 9 March, Vladyslav Yesypenko, a RFE/RL journalist who reported on developments in Crimea, filmed a flower-laying ceremony…
How Russian imperialism jailed Ukrainian dissidents 50 years ago and today
12 January is the Day of the Ukrainian political prisoner, established to honor people who were imprisoned on…
Drawing the life he is not living: prison art by Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin showcased in Berlin | Photos
Take a peek at exclusive photos from Atelier Soldina, an exposition space in Berlin, which saw the opening…
Daily review: Biden and Putin talk (again), Germany opposes Russia’s return to G7, Ukraine imposes sanctions for Crimean bridge
Past 24 hours in the war zone Russian hybrid forces launched four attacks on Ukrainian positions. In one…
This January, send a letter to a Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin
Most of us will spend the cozy winter holidays with our family and good food. But there are…
65-year-old Russian historian of Stalin’s terror has prison sentence extended to 15 years
On 27 December, judge Yekaterina Khomyakova Petrozavodsk City Court (Karelia, Russia) extended Yury Dmitriev‘s 13-year prison sentence by…
“F*cking execute her!” Torture, forced labor, one bottle of water a day: how a Ukrainian woman hostage survived the prisons of Russia-occupied Donbas
[editorial]Maryna Chuikova, a 50 years-old Ukrainian nurse, spent over a year in the illegal prisons of the “Donetsk…
Ukrainian political prisoner, father of four who resisted Crimean occupation starts a hunger strike in Russian prison
What do we know about Ivan Yatskin? On 6 December, Nikolai Polozov, the lawyer of Ukrainian political prisoner…
Crimean Tatar leader Dzhelyal kept in unheated Russian prison as temperatures approach freezing
On 4 September, Pervomayskoye village of Simferopol region of Crimea saw the detention of Nariman Dzhelyal. On 6…
A coffee seller and an entire village family: who are the three detained Ukrainians Russia’s FSB arrested as “spies”
Grani.ru, Russia’s independent website, draws a link between this event and the meeting of Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign…
Russia arrests, fines 30 Crimean Tatars celebrating release of their unjustly imprisoned lawyer with a 50-kilo cake
Crimean Tatar lawyer Edem Semedlyaev was released from a remand prison in occupied Simferopol on the evening of…
“An attempt to ban memory.” Why Russia wants to shut down its top human rights NGO Memorial
Russia has moved one step closer to shut down Memorial, Russia’s most famous human rights organization, accusing it…
“There is no greater humiliation than reducing a person to an animal without any rights.” Kremlin hostages share their prison survival strategies
[editorial]Hundreds of Kremlin hostages have seen nothing but cell and prison yard since 2014. New imprisonments happen every…
Kyiv photographer displays the wounds of war
In 2014, Russia invaded and occupied Crimea and certain parts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, thus breaching international…
Putin’s Hostages, documentary about Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin, available online
Euromaidan Press is making the documentary Putin’s Hostages: Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin, freely available online. The…
Russia’s vile attempts to discredit the Crimean Tatars must not be kept silent
[editorial]The vile and underhanded attempts of Russian authorities to discredit the Crimean Tatars must not be kept silent,…
Being yourself is not a crime: look into the eyes of kids of Crimean Tatar political prisoners jailed by Russia
Childhood is a time of brightest memories, which you remember for the rest of your life. The childhoods…