war crime
Torture as a policy of suppressing Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion – Report
ZMINA Human Rights Center collected evidence of how Ukrainians were kidnapped, interrogated, and tortured en masse by Russian occupying forces during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to human rights defenders, the Russian military treats the entire population of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine as a threat. Torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading […]
OHCHR documented widespread practices of torture and ill-treatment of Ukrainian civilian detainees by Russian armed forces
Of 38 released civilians (34 men, 4 women) interviewed by OHCHR in the mentioned period, 33 individuals reported having various forms of torture or ill-treatment inflicted on them while in detention, in order to force them to confess to having cooperated with the Ukrainian armed forces, to force them to cooperate with Russian armed forces or affiliated armed groups, or simply to intimidate them
Revealing identity of Russian POWs: violation of their right to protection against ‘public curiosity’ or existence of ‘compelling public interest’?
In order to analyze the validity of a possible violation of the relevant provision of GC III, it is necessary to carry out a detailed analysis of the mentioned term "public curiosity", as well as its forms.
Prosecutor’s Office published a video that depicts prisoners of Odessa SIZO being beaten and opened a number of proceedings
The prosecutor's office changed the legal qualification of the case to torture. Suspects may face the imprisonment for a term of 10 years
Law enforcement officers disrupted a commemorative event in Crimea and detained its organizer
Law enforcement officers have not drawn a protocol against Bekir Umerov. He is verbally accused of insulting a senior official
Activist Shabunin says that the SBU organized a picket near his house
The so-called picket participants could not answer his question about the purpose of the picket
One civilian died from shelling of Avdiivka – police
Militants shelled residential flats on Gagarin Street and Central Avenue, as reported by the Police Department
School and stadium shelled in Avdiivka. Two people died – Zhebrivskyi
The Head of the Donetsk regional military and civil administration reported about the face injury of a foreign photojournalist
Case of Tornado commanders submitted to court
The prosecutor's office submitted to the court the indictment against members of the former Tornado special purpose police patrol company
Amnesty International urges to secure Ukrainian lawyers
The Ukrainian authorities must secure lawyers of Russian servicemen
Former chief of Berkut police force hiding in Crimea – PGO
The majority of former Berkut officers, suspected of murders of the Euromaidan activists in 2014, is hiding in the territory of Russia now
Social Policy Ministry allows not to obey law on IDPs
It means the actual instruction to the subordinates to violate the rules of the new version of the law on IDPs
International Criminal Court receives over 300 evidence of crimes in Donbas
Ukrainian authorities do not have sufficient capacity to ensure effective and impartial investigations into all reported cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity in southeast Ukraine - expert
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