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Nikolay Kartashev, a 22-year-old Russian serviceman from Rostov Oblast, is charged with killing a civilian during the occupation of Bucha in 2022. He is accused of violating the laws and customs of war. This is one of the few war crime cases that are tried not in absentia, that is, Kartashev is in the dock.
15 October 2024
Serhii Mykhailenko is an Azov Brigade soldier. He left the Azovstal plant together with his fellow soldiers on May 20, 2022. They were judged for crimes they had not committed. The so-called Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced Mykhailenko to life imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony. The man was sent to Siberia to serve his illegal sentence.
11 October 2024
Former captives speak about Taganrog Pre-Trial Detention Center No. 2 as a most brutal torture camp. This is where journalist Victoria Roshchyna was kept. Her death was announced yesterday, October 10.
11 October 2024
In Warsaw, MIHR, Zmina, and OMCT presented a large-scale study of Russia's crimes in the occupied territories of Ukraine. It is about the torture and persecution of Ukrainians on political and ideological grounds. During the discussion, they also talked about the medical and legal documentation of torture, with PHR sharing its experience.
8 October 2024
Melitopol is one of the Ukrainian cities that Russia captured in the first days of a full-scale […]
4 October 2024
During the annual OSCE human rights conference in the Polish capital, MIHR presented a large-scale investigation into how Russia persecutes Ukrainians. This is its second part. It not only describes in detail the crimes committed by the Russian military in Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions but also records the places where Ukrainians are held, the ways they are taken to Russia, and the names and military units involved in these crimes.
3 October 2024