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In this week’s bulletin: Alexander Skobov denounces war in Russian court/ Putin’s hybrid nuclear war/ Georgia’s choice/ Roma in Ukraine/ Evidence of Russian torture/ religious persecution/ manipulation of children
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
With a bag over my head, I was taken to a torture chamber in Donetsk (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 13th)
Two Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea sentenced to 6 years for studying the Bible online (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 16th)
Ukrainian defender’s mother and her nephew abducted and sentenced by Russian ‘court’ to 15 years (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 15th)
Crimean human rights defender and citizen journalist Iryna Danylovych is reporting serious health issues while in Russian detention (Crimea Platform, X, January 14th)
Russia sentences young Sevastopol man to 11 years, claiming he emailed Ukraine’s Security Service (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 14th)
Crimean Tatar sentenced by Russia to 19 years for ‘religious dissidence’ hurled into punishment cell for prayer (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 13th)
Russian ‘psychologists’ used to get kids in occupied Ukraine to report on their parents (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 13th)
Hostages to the system: Education under Occupation (Alterpravo, January 2025)
Life in the ruins (Alterpravo, January 2025)
The situation at the front:
The Insider’s weekly round-up of news from the front (The Insider, 19 January)
Destroyed Orikhiv (Tribunal for Putin, January 10th)
News from Ukraine – general:
Tortured by the Russians, abandoned back home in Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 17th)
Let life conquer all things – “Animal Rescue Kharkiv” (Kharkiv Human Rights Prot’n Group, 14 Jan)
Housing and residential conditions of Ukrainians: Survey results (Cedos, January 6th)
Street aid daily, Odesa (video – European Network for Solidarity With Ukraine, January 2025)
Roma in Ukraine (video – European Network for Solidarity With Ukraine, January 2025)
War-related news from Russia:
Alexander Skobov’s closing statement at trial: “The guilt of Putin’s Nazi dictatorship is obvious” (The Russian Reader, 17 January)
Ukrainian political prisoner imprisoned for 10 years in Russia’s revenge for Euromaidan is ‘released’, yet not freed (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 17th)
Kirill Medvedev: “I really don’t want to leave” (The Russian Reader, 16 January)
Russia: New Attacks on Rights (Human Rights Watch, January 16th)
Russian attitudes to war: “Fine, as long as our children aren’t taken there” (iStories, 16 January)
American start-up for FSB General’s son (iStories, 13 January)
Analysis and comment:
Roadmap for ensuring organization of postwar elections in Ukraine (Opora, January 15th)
Denys Bondar: Putin’s hybrid nuclear war on Ukraine (Posle.Media, 15 January)
Democracy in Peril: Georgia’s choice amid global shifts in power (Commons.com.ua, 13 January)
Research of human rights abuses:
World Congress on Enforced Disappearances: ZMINA shared experiences and challenges of cooperation with the UN mechanisms (Zmina, January 16th)
Statement by Pablo de Greiff, Commissioner of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, to UN Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting (UNHCR, January 13th)
Solidarity actions:
A new year fund-raising campaign (Solidarity Collectives, 16 January)
Upcoming events:
Wednesday 29th January, 7.0pm. On-Line Forum: The reality of Russian occupation – why we must support a united Ukraine. Speakers: LYDIA GALKINA, Chairman of NGPU (Independent Union of Mineworkers of Ukraine) at Toshkivska mine, Luhansk region. VERA YASTREBOVA, Eastern Human Rights Group. HALYA KOYNASH, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group. Register for zoom link here: http://bit.ly/ukraine29jan
Saturday 15 February 2025 11.0 am — 4.0 pm, Conference: End the Russian invasion and occupation. National Education Union, Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9BD. Register here.
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