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In this week’s bulletin: Occupied territories human rights report/ Ukrainian socialists to Gaza flotilla/ Scotland arms decision/ Ukraine-Palestine comment/ Weaponisation of language/ Evidence of Russian torture, mock executions, threats to kill relatives/ Religious persecution and other war crimes
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Children of war gave birth to children — about poetry in front-line Kharkiv (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 6th)
Open war against Crimean Tatars began long before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 5th)
New ban on Internet searches and attempts to bypass Russia’s information blockade in occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 5th)
The face of resistance: Crimean activist Enver Ametov (Crimea Platform, 5 September)
Report: discrimination and stigmatisation of Ukrainians in occupied territories (Crimea Human Rights Group, 4 September)
Turning water into war: Russia created a humanitarian crisis in Donbas (The Insider, September 4th)
“Travesty of justice” condemned as second Melitopol journalist gets 15-year sentence for reporting the truth about Russian occupation (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 4th)
Russia plans new detention centres in Crimea (Crimea Platform, 3 September)
Melitopol journalist abducted, tortured and sentenced to 16 years for pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 3rd)
41 days in the dark (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 2nd)
Russians force young Ukrainian to surrender by holding a gun to his mother’s head (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 2nd)
First criminal charges and imprisonment for studying the Bible in Russian-occupied Donbas (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 1st)
News from Ukraine:
A new threat to freedom? (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, September 7th)
Another victory for a democratic mobilisation in Ukraine: the government backs down in the face of protests (Ukraine Solidarity- EU, September 6th)
Return from Ukraine. Interview with Bjarke Friborg from the Danish Red-Green Alliance (Europe Solidaire, August 27th)
News from the front:
Russia systematically using chemical weapons in Ukraine (The Insider, 5 September)
Russian attack on All-Ukrainian Free Trade Union of Humanitarian Deminers in Chernihiv (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 5 September)
Anarcha-feminist Kafa’s story (Solidarity Collectives, 3 September)
War-related news from Russia:
Russian army seeks recruits with HIV and hepatitis (iStories, 5 September)
Eyewitnesses to a war crime: 20,000 kidnapped Ukrainian children (Meduza, 3 September)
If it’s not all hot air: a Russia-China gas breakthrough (Meduza, 2 September)
Analysis and comment:
How hopes for a peace summit rose and then fizzled (Meduza, 5 September)
Empire’s wings: Ukraine and Kurdistan compared (Posle.Media, 3 September)
The anti-militarism of fools (Freedom, September 2nd)
Russia’s graveyard peace, from Grozny to Mariupol (Ukrainer, 2 September)
The fight against genocide in Ukraine and in Gaza is central to the global anti-fascist struggle (Greater Surbiton, August 30th)
The role of citizens in war (Centre for Civil Liberties, August 29th)
Research of human rights abuses:
The war crimes of Russia (Zmina, September 5th)
Russia confirms torture is state policy through withdrawal from vital European Convention (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 1st)
A deafening silence: Ukrainians held incommunicado and forcibly disappeared (Amnesty International, 2025)
International solidarity:
Support for defence companies involved in Israel halted – while arms supply for Ukraine continues (Scottish Government, September 3rd)
Message of Social Movement to Freedom Flotilla ((Ukraine Solidarity- EU, August 31st)
Forthcoming events:
30 September in London: political prisoners of the Kremlin, past and present (Ukrainian Institute London)
During September: Ukrainian film festival 2025 (Ukrainian Institute London)
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