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Russia sent 48 Ukrainian children to psychiatric hospitals in the occupied Donetsk region on extremism charges – human rights advocate
News - 26 September 2025

Russia sent 48 Ukrainian children to psychiatric hospitals in the occupied Donetsk region on extremism charges – human rights advocate

According to Almenda, approximately 6 million Ukrainians remain in the occupied territories, including 1.5 million children. Their militarization, which began in 2014, has intensified after the full-scale Russian invasion

Two more Crimean Tatars were forcibly placed in psychiatric hospital of Simferopol
News - 23 February 2017

Two more Crimean Tatars were forcibly placed in psychiatric hospital of Simferopol

Eider Saledinov and Rustem Ismailov - the defendants in the Simferopol “Hizb ut-Tahrir” case

Another Crimean Tatar got sent to psychiatric hospital
News - 30 December 2016

Another Crimean Tatar got sent to psychiatric hospital

The expertise, which lasts less than 2 hours, turned into forced hospitalization that lasts almost a month

Two more Crimean Tatars can be forcefully sent to psychiatric expertise
News - 24 November 2016

Two more Crimean Tatars can be forcefully sent to psychiatric expertise

Crimean advocate Emil Kurbedinov wrote on his Facebook account

Defendant in ‘Hizb ut-Tahrir case’ forcibly sent to psychiatric hospital
News - 17 November 2016

Defendant in ‘Hizb ut-Tahrir case’ forcibly sent to psychiatric hospital

One of the six people arrested in the "case of Hizb ut-Tahrir" in Yalta was sent to a psychiatric hospital for a forced examination

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Government agencies have appointed officials responsible for the temporarily occupied territories: human rights advocate explains what this will change

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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The lesson of Crimea: Rewarding aggression only invites more war

Not just Ukraine — Russia is preparing Ukrainian children for future wars elsewhere

Mariia Sulialina

24 February

Not just Ukraine — Russia is preparing Ukrainian children for future wars elsewhere

Why “good Russians” in exile repeat Russian and Soviet colonial narratives

Leila Seiitbek

11 February

Why “good Russians” in exile repeat Russian and Soviet colonial narratives

Reconciliation never ends: on the challenges of decolonization in South Africa

Hlonipha Mokoena

31 January

Reconciliation never ends: on the challenges of decolonization in South Africa

Russia needs soldiers. The Global South has desperate people. The rest is exploitation.

Munira Mustaffa

27 January

Russia needs soldiers. The Global South has desperate people. The rest is exploitation.

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