Deaths and medical torture through Russia's plunder and closure of hospitals in occupied Kherson oblast Russia first made any healthcare on occupied territory contingent upon the person taking Russian ...

We tested several groups of Ukrainian and Russian human rights defenders with professional psychologists from Kharkiv University twenty years ago and confirmed that our hypothesis was correct.

What is it like to survive in captivity, suffering from a stroke, tuberculosis, or diabetes, when instead of medical care you often receive beatings and humiliation?

Putin has ‘honoured’ both Anton Struyev, and his 15th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, other members of which are accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old child and gangraping her mother in occupied ...

A Russian tweet demanding the ‘humiliating death’ of Azov defenders raises suspicions over the killing of 53 Ukrainian POWs at Olenivka, shortly after Russian propagandists showed a Ukrainian prisoner ...

2.3. Information on the disappearance of civilians During three years of the full-scale war, the KHPG recorded 1,861 incidents related to the disappearance of civilians in the territory of the Kharkiv ...

Likes in social media, correspondence in messengers, and even phone conversations. All of this can lead to imprisonment if a costly forensic examination reveals that it justifies Russia's aggression ...

Russia has taken all three sons from Crimean Tatar historian Shukri Seitumerov and his wife Lilia, with the persecution in each case chillingly similar to the charges ...

Moscow revives Stalin’s SMERSH to hunt down resistance in occupied Ukraine Moves appear to be underway in Russia to formally reinstate the notorious Stalin-era SMERSH ‘counterintelligence’ units, with ...

Cities that Russia relentlessly bombed in 2022 remain in a dire state, with Russia having even stopped making the propaganda videos where they’d claim credit for renovations carried before the ...

Input For the Project of General Comment of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances on “Women, Girls and Enforced Disappearances” July 15, 2025 The authors have prepared this material based on their ...

While next to nothing is known about this latest victim of Russian persecution on occupied territory, the case is disturbing as it is likely to be Russia's test run of religious persecution, with more ...