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Torture of Ukrainians is a state policy of Russia. Human rights organizations reveal new details of brutal torture of civilians

Systematic and widespread patterns of arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances, sexual violence, filtration, and related crimes against Ukrainian civilians in Russian-controlled territories may constitute crimes against humanity, as revealed by a new report by the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and Ukrainian partners, the Media Initiative for Human Rights and the Human Rights Centre ZMINA.

18 July 2024

Advocacy

Shelling of Kyiv hospitals. Human rights organizations demand decisive action from the international community to protect Ukraine

Statement by the Ukraine 5AM Coalition on the Russian Federation's missile attack on medical facilities and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.

8 July 2024

Advocacy

Russia wants to secretly bury murdered Ukrainian teenagers Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov

The occupation authorities of Berdiansk are planning a secret burial of Ukrainian teenagers Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov. This was reported to the Media Initiative for Human Rights by Hryhorii Ohannisian, Tihran's father.

3 July 2024

Advocacy

Russian trials of Ukrainian prisoners from the perspective of international law: The MIHR held an expert discussion in The Hague

The Media Initiative for Human Rights organized a roundtable discussion, "Deprivation of the right to a fair trial in international criminal law."

27 June 2024

War and justice

Without Lawyers and Witnesses: How Russia Ignores the Rights of Imprisoned Ukrainians to a Fair Trial and What This Means for the Aggressor Country

The MIHR asked Maksym Tymochko, an officer of the International Law Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, why Russia ignores the immunity of a combatant, how the case against Nazi lawyers in Germany will help Ukraine, and why the enemy changed its strategy in its trials of the Azov fighters.

24 June 2024

Enforced disappearances

“15 years of imprisonment for him is a death sentence.” Where the Russians are holding and why they are prosecuting Serhiy Kotov, a driving instructor from Oleshky

Driving instructor Serhiy Kotov was one of those taken by the Russian military from his home in Oleshky, on the left bank of Kherson region. For more than two years, the Russians have been holding him captive, and recently "sentenced" him to 15 years in prison, allegedly for espionage.

13 June 2024