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Resident of Oleshky on life under occupation and her missing husband after the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in Kherson region
The resident of Oleshky told ZMINA about almost a year and a half of life under occupation, the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam in the southern Ukraine, the behaviour of collaborators, and her missing husband.
80% of collaboration cases are heard in absentia, without the accused present – ZMINA
The atmosphere of fear and coercion to cooperate with Russian occupiers is not taken into account by current Ukrainian legislation on collaboration when prosecuting individuals
Ukrainian investigators and judges continue to ignore international humanitarian law when considering collaborationist cases
ZMINA releases an analytical report titled "Liability for collaborationism: how has judicial practice changed?", which analyses the verdicts listed in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions
Children in occupied Crimea are forced to sew clothes and produce drone parts for the Russian military
Ukrainian children living under Russian occupation are being compelled to manufacture materials and equipment for the Russian army during vocational training classes.
The government has not yet introduced a mechanism for verifying knowledge and skills acquired during the occupation – Ombudsman
Due to the Ukrainian government's failure to establish a procedure for recognising educational results, Ukrainian citizens who obtained an education in temporarily occupied territories are still unable to continue their studies or find employment
1.6 million children may remain in Russian occupation – Almenda human rights advocates
Researchers were unable to find precise data on access to education in Ukrainian in the Russian-occupied territories of the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Kherson regions. However, it is known that the Russians announced the transition of education to Russian, and Ukrainian was only allowed to be taught as a "native" or "optional" subject for a few hours a week
Hromadske Radio seeks 700,000 hryvnias to broadcast along the frontline
The funds are needed for content production, transmitter fees, and the functioning of the editorial office
In occupied Berdiansk, children studying in Ukrainian schools online are threatened to be removed from their families
Viktor Dudukalov explained that it is very difficult for a child not to be in contact with a Russian school under occupation, but parents leave their children in a healthy environment so that they can receive a quality education
Proud of the “new country”: who is helping the occupiers to form the bar in Zaporizhzhia region
How the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Bar Association was assembled out of nowhere and who among Ukrainian lawyers contributed to the integration of the occupied territories into the Russian legal space, read in this article
From Kupiansk to Melitopol: the Russian system of torture in illegal detention centers
ZMINA analysts reviewed the testimonies of victims who were illegally detained by the Russians in various places in the occupied territories between April 2022 and March 2023. Here are the main points from the analytical report
Judges, prosecutors and sperm producers: who “administers justice” in the occupied Luhansk region
Read about the work of the occupation courts in the Luhansk region in this article
Working in the occupied territories: what international humanitarian law says about it
Noel Calhoun, Deputy Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission, spoke about international standards that should be applied to the temporarily occupied territories during the Docudays UA discussion, "Educators, doctors, and public utilities in the occupied territories—whom does Ukraine consider collaborators, and is it fair?"
Teachers under occupation: who should be punished for collaboration and what are the problems in the legislation
In Ukraine, since about November 2022, after the liberation of the temporarily occupied city of Kherson, there has been a professional, legal, and emotional discussion about how to approach the issue of educators’ work under occupation
Who works in the courts of first instance in the occupied part of Donetsk region
The Donetsk occupation system of “justice” developed in 2014 is based on Ukrainian traitor judges, who have been the backbone of the judiciary of the illegal DPR formation all this time. Many have been working without a break for the second decade and have already taken their third oath of allegiance
Who is now administering “supreme” justice in the occupied territory of Donetsk region
Who took control of the so-called “Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic,” what motivated people from Russian regions to start working there, and to what extent local “elites” have retained their presence in the central judicial institution, read in ZMINA article.
Operation Blockbuster: why Russians shoot staged videos with detained Ukrainians
ZMINA explored how Russian security forces and courts turn civilian Ukrainians into “terrorists” and why propagandists publish videos of their detentions and confessions
“We were kept in a pit near a petrol station”: a teenager from Kherson region told how he was taken to a torture chamber
The guy was taken to a cell where about 15 people were already there. It looked like some kind of shower room: everything was tiled and there was a drain in the corner. Vitalii was the youngest there.
Who became “judges” in the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region
As for all kinds of natives of the Russian hinterland, the question of their prosecution by the Ukrainian authorities will depend on the degree of participation in war crimes against the civilian population
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