Crimean spy case prisoner beats death odds after seven-year Russian ordeal
Most Ukrainian face electric shock torture and starvation in Russian captivity.
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180 Ukrainian citizens are political prisoners in Russia, including 116 Crimean Tatars
Ukrainian Ombudsman for human rights Dmytro Lubinets said Russia illegally holds 180 Ukrainian citizens as political prisoners. 116…
“After the third shock, my brain exploded”: Crimean Tatar activist says FSB tortured him with electricity to obtain “confessions”
On 21 December, Nariman Ametov, a Crimean Tatar activist and the father of three minor children, reported on…
Jailing innocent Crimean Tatars to insanely huge terms: a how-to guide from Russia
16 August 2021. More than 150 people have gone all the way from occupied Crimea to Rostov-on-Don in…
“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…
The Golunov case and why Russian activists cannot ignore the war in Ukraine
A number of Ukrainian journalists have pointed out that if such rallies and public outcry had been employed…
New UNGA resolution: Crimea temporarily occupied by Russia, Russia must release political prisoners & stop repressions
On 22 December, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution A73/L.48 titled “Situation of human rights in…
Soviet political prisoner: international pressure can release Ukrainian prisoners of the Kremlin, but there’s not enough of it
Mr. Marynovych, currently, nobody in Ukraine has the answer to the question of how to free the political…
Spirits unbroken: “Crimean Solidarity” pays $14,000 of fines of repressed activists with coins
In December 2017, the Ukrainian civic initiative Euromaidan SOS awarded its annual Volunteer Prize to the Crimean Tatar…
Russian occupiers now hold at least 70 political prisoners in Crimea
To mark International Human Rights Day, the Crimean Human Rights Defense Group has released an infographic on the…
107 remains of political prisoners executed by NKVD found in old Lutsk prison (photos)
NKVD - the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the leading Soviet secret police organization from 1934 to…
Ukraine moves forward with issue of political hostages held by Russia
A new institution to coordinate the issues of Ukrainian political hostages held in Russia and Russian-annexed Crimea, including…
Russia’s Crimean Tatar captive goes on hunger strike demanding justice
Ruslan is now undergoing a farcical trial in Russia for the second time. As he explains, the hunger…
Who are the 36 Ukrainian hostages of the Kremlin? Interactive graphic
At least 36 Ukrainians are illegally imprisoned by Russia on political motives. They are part of the #LetMyPeopleGo…
This Christmas, send a postcard to one of the 36 Ukrainian hostages of the Kremlin #LetMyPeopleGo
The initiative Euromaidan SOS and its partners within the campaign LetMyPeopleGo have launched the New Year's Marathon of…
Ukrainian human rights group that helped bring down Soviet Union turns 40
In the mid-1970s, political confrontation between the USSR and the West reached such heights that it threatened to…
Write to the Kremlin’s Ukrainian hostages on Victims of political repressions day
On October 30, Russia's Day of Remembrance of the victims of political repressions, write a letter to the…
Ukrainian political prisoner Yuriy Ilchenko escapes from Russian-occupied Crimea
When one summer morning Sophia came to work, she saw a lean man at her office door. For…