Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

One of the oldest Ukrainian human rights NGOs. 30 yrs of protecting civil and political rights 🗽

Member of the @t4p_ua war crimes initiative.

[Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group @khpg]

Russian court passes 18-year death sentence against 77-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Ananiev.

Before the verdict handed down on 22 October by three Russian judges "who have lost all honour and conscience", Volodymyr Ananiev, who has serious medical issues, made it clear that any term of imprisonment will be a death sentence.

https://t.co/l69czi4XvI

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Gravely ill political prisoner Lenur Khalilov ordered to die in pain in a Russian prison.

Even the Russian oncologist confirmed that Lenur Khalilov's release should be automatic, given his metastatic liver cancer, yet prison staff, prosecutor and, most shamefully, the court, proved willing to invent any feeble excuse for keeping him imprisoned.

https://t.co/zDXeHJitNV

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15-19-year sentences in Russia's savage reprisal for Crimean Solidarity human rights activism.

The conveyor-belt trial was the same and as predetermined as all the others. The victims and their families are not.

https://t.co/bSkk2usc6N

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Russian FSB abduct Ukrainian on 'spying' charges when sentence for social media comment proved too short.

Had there been any grounds for ‘spying’ charges, these should surely have emerged when Olha Sidachova-Shakova was seized for an almost certainly pro-Ukrainian comment on social media.

https://t.co/5K0deHjPCs

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Young Melitopol man sentenced to 14 years for donating 10 euros to Ukraine’s Armed Forces.

Russia's kangaroo 'Zaporizhzhia regional court' issued three horrific sentences in as many days.

https://t.co/37vO8J72O2

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Without food, water, or a way out: Russia’s responsibility for the situation in Oleshky.

In occupied Oleshky in the Kherson region, people have lived for months without reliable supplies of food, water, and medicine. To obtain provisions, residents risk their lives on mined roads while facing the threat of drone attacks.

https://t.co/wFoM7jwFIR

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Four Ukrainians sentenced to 25 years or life for partisan resistance after Russian ‘torture so bad you’d confess to anything’.

Ihor Haranin, Serhiy Harkusha, Serhiy Yevtushenko and medic Olena Roi were all subjected to torture and dismissed the preposterous accusation of 'terrorism'.

https://t.co/WzagvZJZLB

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Russia is putting Crimean Anatoliy Kobzar’s life in danger over two years after his brazen abduction.

The FSB concealed Anatoliy Kobzar's whereabouts for 19 months, during which time he was savagely tortured, and is now openly imprisoned with the torture through failure to provide medical treatment.

https://t.co/1o1W6Ta9L3

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71-year-old Anna Sotsenko, abducted in occupied Crimea with her daughter, has been on hunger strike for 43 days.

Anna Sotsenko and her 51-year-old daughter Oksana Sotsenko were held incommunicado for almost 10 months, while the Russian FSB concocted 'treason' charges.

https://t.co/4I4Eou0Z3r

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Murdered Ukrainian children, abducted and tortured civilians that Trump spits on by making 'deals' with Russia.

Russia can, it seems, kill any number of civilians, persecute Ukrainians for remaining true to their country, torture some to death and the US President will demand that Ukrainians choose another, more 'cooperative', President.

https://t.co/SLOa4gYxmv

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Russia’s ‘trial’ begins of Crimean Tatar mother of five and three young women for ‘trying to violently seize power’.

The four women, targeted for their faith, are facing horrific sentences without any recognizable crime after Russia escalated its repression in occupied Crimea against Crimean Muslims.

https://t.co/eCQAUBuRXN

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64-year-old Liubov Plakhina sentenced to 17 years for resistance to Russian occupation.

Liubov Plakhina is turning 65 in November, with the 17-year term of imprisonment for remaining loyal to Ukraine meaning she would be around 80 if she survived the sentence.

https://t.co/v8pqDbIk9q

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What Lies Behind Russian Strikes on Digital Infrastructure.

Russia is increasingly targeting data centers — facilities that support the operations of service providers, websites, media outlets, and dozens of digital services. We explain whether such strikes could leave Ukrainians without internet access and where the line is drawn between a military target and civilian infrastructure.

https://t.co/pQCGZZdlIv

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Tortured Ukrainian sportsman, five others get 19-27-year sentences for fake ‘plot’ against Russia-installed Crimean leader.

The sentences come over three years after Kyrylo Barannyk and nine other men and women were first taken prisoner on evidently fabricated charges.

https://t.co/H69ONpWlSS

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Occupation ‘court’ demands the addition of 'terrorism' charges in Russia’s persecution of abducted Ukrainian family.

After being held incommunicado for 18 months, Russia came out with shocking charges and has now escalated them against 56-year-old Tetiana Maliar and her brother Valentyn, while continuing to hide her son's whereabouts.

https://t.co/uR9ATmSkVb

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Melitopol man with cerebral palsy sentenced by occupation 'court' to 12 years for helping Ukraine in 2022.

Heorhiy Fatieiev was 36 when abducted by the Russian invaders in 2022. He was held incommunicado for four years before Russia accused him of 'spying' for helping the defenders of his country.

https://t.co/O2P9ktH6lk

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Russia passes 12-year sentence against Luhansk student abducted two years ago when she was just 18.

Krystyna Odintsova was held incommunicado, without any formal status, for 18 months before the Russians even admitted that the very young woman was in their custody.

https://t.co/zCnGNlyctm

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Abducted and tortured Crimean Tatar lawyer sentenced to 16 years for ‘treason’ against Russian invaders.

There are no legal grounds for the FSB to have held Amet Abyltairov incommunicado, without any formal charges, for six months, and it is unfortunately likely that the case is based on testimony extracted through torture.

https://t.co/epjLIEKHhw

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64-year-old from occupied Tokmak sentenced to 14 years for donating 25 euro to Ukraine’s Armed Forces.

Svitlana Kramchanina, who turns 65 next month, is one of many women and men persecuted for their patriotism.

https://t.co/bZxZgzketA

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Melitopol woman sentenced to 13 years for unwavering loyalty to Ukraine.

Inna Tkachenko is one of an ever-increasing number of women and men abducted from her own city and then accused of 'spying' for her own country about the invaders.

https://t.co/SYpopAKwwp