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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
“F*cking execute her!” On 19 March 2018, Maryna Chuikova was detained at the Maiorsk checkpoint when going from…
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
Тoday, 127 Ukrainian citizens are illegally imprisoned in Russia and occupied Crimea for political reasons, and 283 Ukrainians…
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
After the occupation of Crimea in 2014, Russian authorities launched a wave of raids and searches in Crimean…
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…
Constructing the terror: Russia’s forged cases of “Ukrainian extremism”
The “spies” and the “terrorists” In late March this year, the Military Court in the city of Rostov-on-Don…
Russia now has more political prisoners than USSR did in 1976
Two years ago, Russian activist Vladimir Kara-Murza pointed out that Vladimir Putin’s Russia had more political prisoners than…
Crimean Platform sets the scene for deoccupation, all UN members should join – Ukrainian expert at UNSC
Dear Ladies and Gentleman, First of all, allow me to thank the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the…
Ukrainian ex-Kremlin hostages launch platform to free political prisoners held by Russia
Russia's seven-year hybrid war against Ukraine has resulted in not only the seizure of Crimea and eastern Ukraine…
Ukrainian human rights group that helped bring down Soviet Union turns 44
In the mid-1970s, political confrontation between the USSR and the West reached such heights that it threatened to…
Crimean Tatars in the crosshairs of Russia’s war on Muslims
On 16 September, seven more Crimean Tatars from the Crimean peninsula which Russia occupied in 2014 were predictably…
Why Ukraine should support Yuri Dmitriev, Russian historian unearthing Stalin’s repressions
On July 22, a court in Russia’s Karelia region sentenced 64-year-old historian Yuri Dmitriev. The man was found…