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In this week’s bulletin: Who gets sent to war/ Will Russia go further?/ “Resist invasion or accept occupation”/ Research on human rights in Ukraine/ Evidence of Russian torture/ Oleshky under siege/ Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children/ Russia’s rigged election/
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Russia upends the law for 12-year sentence against 62-year-old from occupied Luhansk oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 25th)
Russian court upholds medical torture and likely death sentence against Crimean Tatar political prisoner (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 25th)
The Sixth Summit of the International Crimea Platform: Key Messages (Crimea Platform, Sep 24th)
Russia sentences four Melitopol men, one just 18 when abducted and tortured, to up to 28 years (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 24th)
Russian invaders sentence Mariupol man to 25 years (Kharkiv Human Rights Prot’n Group, 23 Sept)
Over 1,000 sexual crimes since Russia’s full-scale invasion, including the rape of a 4-year-old, genital beatings and torture (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 22nd)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, September 22nd)
The EU and Ukraine’s partner states have condemned Russia’s sham elections in the temporarily occupied territories (Crimea Platform, September 22nd)
Massive 18-year sentence in Russian copy-paste ‘trial’ of Ukrainian from occupied Kherson oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 21st)
Progress of the war:
The Realities of Russia’s Brutal War Against Ukraine and Europe (Russian Reader, September 26th)
Environmental Consequences of War, July-Aug (Ukraine War Environmental Consequences work group, 26 Sept)
Oleshky under siege: a city where people eat grass, hide bodies in a hospital basement and wait for an evacuation that never comes (Ukrainska Pravda, September 25th)
The consumer boom is over: Ukrainian drone strikes on Wildberries and Ozon mark the end of Russians’ spending spree (The Insider, September 22nd)
Before the war and now: shocking images of Ukrainian cities (Eastern Frontier Initiative, 27 August)
News from Ukraine:
Journalist Maria Yizhvenko killed in Russian drone strike (Ukrainska Pravda, 26 Sept)
US allocates $27 million for return of kidnapped Ukrainian children (Kyiv Independent 25 Sept)
Bail that cannot be paid is not bail. Statement by human rights organisations (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 23rd)
Former Supreme Court deputy head faces corruption charges (Kyiv Independent, 23 Sept)
Improving Humane Conditions in Places of Detention by Strengthening the National Preventive System in Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 18th)
Ukraine foreign minister: Ukraine should choose its heroes carefully (Ukrainska Pravda 17 Sept)
War-related news from Russia:
Elections expert Alexander Kynev arrested (Meduza, 25 September)
Women in Prison: Serving Full Time (Posle.Media, September 23rd)
Cases of forced deployment are multiplying (Mediazona, 22 September)
About 60% of United Russia votes might be fabricated (iStories, 22 September)
Four years of ‘partial mobilisation’ (Mediazona, 21 September)
Comment and analysis:
Will Russia go further and start a conventional war against another country? (Oksana Dutchak on facebook, 27 September)
“Resist invasion or accept occupation”: reply to Lindsey German of ‘Stop the War’ (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, September 26th)
Russia’s rigged election gives Putin mandate for all-out war (Kyiv Independent, 22 Sept)
TUC Congress votes to reaffirm solidarity with Ukraine (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 21 September)
Who Gets Sent to War? (The Radical, September 21st)
It doesn’t have to be this way (Radical Dumpling, September 21st)
Research of human rights abuses:
Report: human rights in Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 26th)
ECtHR held a hearing on Russia’s abduction of ten Ukrainian children from occupied Crimea: ZMINA and other NGOs joined as third parties (Zmina, September 23rd)
Access to justice behind bars: Ukraine’s experience presented (Zmina, September 22nd)
Human rights defenders discuss cognitive occupation of Ukrainian territories in the framework of Crimea Days in Czechia (Zmina, September 22nd)
UN Commission points to human impact of Russia’s targeting of energy infrastructure, militarisation of education, and recruitment of foreign nationals (UN Human Rights, September 21st)
Also not to be missed:
From Russia with ‘Russophobia’: propagandists pose as ‘angry Latvians’ (The Insider, 26 September)
The EU lifted sanctions on two billionaires, extended sanctions on others (Meduza, 25 September)
Empty streets and ‘dragon’s teeth’: Lithuania-Russia border (Eastern Frontier Initiative, 20 Sept)
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