Painkillers instead of hospital: Russia’s torture of critically-ill Crimean Tatar political prisoners continues unabated
Medzhyt Abdurakhmanov Medzhyt Abdurakhmanov is one of the Crimean Tatar political prisoners held in captivity for a crime…
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“Hell. Despair. The feeling of absurdity.” Ukrainian journalist jailed in occupied Crimea describes FSB torture in harrowing letters
Who is Vladyslav Yesypenko? Vladyslav Yesypenko comes from Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine. A year before…
Protasevich’s “confession”: KGB Chairman Andropov’s specialty
Over the past days, Belarus State television has shown several times footage with Belarus oppositionist Roman Protasevich confessing…
Three warders who tortured prisoners in occupied Donbas “concentration camp” ID’d as Russian citizens
Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev, a former captive of the Russian-run “Donetsk People’s Republic,” has reported on his Facebook…
First public photos of Russian-run Donetsk concentration camp leaked online
Cells, torture tools, and the yard: these are the first-ever public photos of the Russian-hybrid-forces-run Izolyatsia prison. The…
I narrowly escaped death in dungeons of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” This is what saved me. Part 2
Communication with the outside world A very colorful type appeared in the cell. They tossed in a person…
I survived the basement prisons of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” Here is what I saw. Part 1
Summer of 2014. At that time I worked as the deputy chief of the Luhansk Regional State Hospital…
Chilling testimonies of police brutality, humiliation & “re-education” amid vicious crackdown on Belarusian protesters
Aleksei Khudanov, the journalist I was arrested in Minsk on the night of August 9-10, and spent the…
Donetsk art center turned into concentration camp: former hostages share their memories
Over the five years of its existence, several hundred people – both militants and locals suspected of spying…
6th anniversary of the death of Yuriy Popravka, tortured & executed by “DNR” militants
Backround: “Yarosh’s business card” In the spring of 2014, Ukraine was going through tumultuous times, daily events were…
Surviving the “DNR/LNR”. Photo project reveals the horror of captivity
Among the heroes of the photo project called “After Captivity”, there are several well-known prisoners, namely artist Serhiy…
“Russians taught how to torture.” Ex-captives of Donbas “republics” share horrors of basement prisons
A massive prisoner swap in which Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages held in occupied Donbas were released became…
Stanislav Klykh, heavily tortured Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin, launches hunger strike
Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin Stanislav Klykh has started a hunger strike in a Russian prison, according…
Former Ukrainian hostage Kostenko tells of FSB’s torture to extract “confessions”
Former political prisoner and Crimean Euromaidan activist Oleksandr Kostenko continues to experience severe health problems after injuries sustained…
A month of freedom: released hostages tell about captivity and torture in occupied Donbas
Read the prisoner swap story: Largest prisoner swap in Donbas: 73 Ukrainians released from captivity of Russian-run “republics” Three…
BBC: How the “DNR” special services & troll factory scare Russians with terror attacks
Masked faces, distorted voices, poses from action movies and ready-to-use firearms – the Russian-language Internet is full of…
Moscow continues to cover up mass murder by Chechen authorities
Novaya gazeta has made continuing contributions to exposing the vicious violence of Ramzan Kadyrov’s regime against its opponents,…
Human sacrifices for the Kremlin’s propaganda machine: meet the “Crimean saboteurs”
“Not a single Ukrainian citizen has suffered here [since 2014], there are absolutely no restrictions, and the attitude…
Russia’s penal reforms point to return of ‘renewed’ GULAG, Novaya Gazeta says
Moscow has taken great pride in the fact that the number of Russians incarcerated in its penal system…
‘Putin’s GULAG more horrible than Stalin’s,’ researchers say
Many people of good will around the world have been horrified by the case of Rizvan Ibragimov who…
