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Russia: Ukrainians tortured to confess to Chechnya killings lose appeal against ‘grossly unfair’ jail sentence

Two Ukrainian men jailed in Russia after being tortured into confessing to a series of murders are the victims of…

October 26, 2016

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Russia: Blogger jailed for playing Pokémon Go in a cathedral must be immediately released

The detention of Ruslan Sokolovsky, a Russian blogger from Yekaterinburg (Urals region) who was sentenced to administrative arrest for two…

September 6, 2016

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Ukraine: Authorities must commit to a thorough investigation after 13 people released from secret detention

Fresh details of secret detention by the Ukrainian authorities have emerged following the release of 13 people from a Security…

August 26, 2016

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Russia declares two more non-profits as ‘undesirable’

The Russian General Prosecutor’s Office Thursday designated two more US–based organizations as “undesirable” under a draconian law adopted last year,…

August 18, 2016

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Car bomb killing of journalist despicable attack on freedom of expression in Ukraine

This morning’s killing of prominent journalist Pavel Sheremet by a car bomb in central Kyiv is a reprehensible act that…

July 20, 2016

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Ukraine: Torture and Secret Detention on Both Sides of the Conflict Line

Both the Ukrainian government authorities and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine are holding civilians in prolonged arbitrary, and sometimes secret…

July 20, 2016

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You Don’t Exist: Arbitrary Detentions, Enforced Disappearances, and Torture in Eastern Ukraine

Both the Ukrainian government authorities and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine are holding civilians in prolonged arbitrary, and sometimes secret…

July 20, 2016

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Uzbekistan: Russian authorities complicit in forcibly returning hundreds of asylum-seekers and migrants to face torture

Hundreds of asylum-seekers, refugees and migrant workers have been deported and even abducted in forced returns from Russia to Uzbekistan,…

April 20, 2016

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Uzbekistan: Russian authorities complicit in forcibly returning hundreds of asylum-seekers and migrants to face torture

Hundreds of asylum-seekers, refugees and migrant workers have been deported and even abducted in forced returns from Russia to Uzbekistan,…

April 20, 2016

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Ban on ethnic Crimean Tatar assembly aimed at snuffing out dissent

Today’s decision to suspend the Mejlis, a representative body of ethnic Crimean Tatars in Crimea, demolishes one of the few…

April 13, 2016

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Ukraine: Murder of lawyer a chilling blow to justice

The hideous murder of lawyer Yuri Grabovski, whose body was found in central Ukraine bearing gunshot wounds, is a chilling…

March 25, 2016

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Russia: Nadiya Savchenko must get a retrial after ‘deeply politicized’ guilty verdict

The case of Ukrainian helicopter pilot Nadiya Savchenko, found guilty of murder today by a court in southern Russia, must…

March 21, 2016