Russia upends the law for 12-year sentence against 62-year-old from occupied Luhansk oblast. The bizarre charges against Serhiy Iliechko were over alleged activities, linked with a sauna and 'visual surveillance' long before Russia launched its full-scale invasion. khpg.org/en/1608816074

Russian court upholds medical torture and likely death sentence against Crimean Tatar political prisoner. 56-year-old Yashar Shikhametov urgently needs proper medical examination and treatment for conditions that are causing acute joint pain and making it impossible to walk. khpg.org/en/1608816081

Russia sentences four Melitopol men, one just 18 when abducted and tortured, to up to 28 years. Vladyslav Vidlatsky, Kostiantyn Zinvovkin, Hryhory and Oleksiy Semykopenko opposed Russia's occupation, with the sentences against them of monstrous savagery. khpg.org/en/1608816078

When a house is declared “abandoned”: how Russia seizes the housing of Ukrainians. Ukrainians who have fled the occupied territories risk losing the housing they left there: Russia considers apartments and houses to be “abandoned” and turns control over to the occupation administrations. t4pua.org/en/3270

Over 1,000 sexual crimes since Russia's full-scale invasion, including the rape of a 4-year-old, genital beatings and torture. In the case of Russian authorities, they are never held to answer, with Russian courts having ignored harrowing accounts of sexual torture from, among others Natalia Vlasova and Yaroslav Zhuk. khpg.org/en/1608816068

Massive 18-year sentence in Russian copy-paste ‘trial’ of Ukrainian from occupied Kherson oblast. Neither Serhiy Chekhovsky nor Svitlana Shevchuk had accepted Russian citizenship despite the immense difficulties this poses on occupied territory. khpg.org/en/1608816063

Disabled 69-year-old pensioner sentenced to 12 years for donations for Ukraine's defence. Age is no constraint in Russia’s persecution of Ukrainians for remaining true to their country, with an ever-mounting number of men and women in their sixties and seventies receiving sentences of 12 to 15 years for supporting Ukraine. khpg.org/en/1608816058

Russia seeks 17-year sentence for Crimean Solidarity in unrelenting persecution of entire Crimean Tatar family. Six Crimean Solidarity civic activists are facing sentences from 17-19 years, with 'foreign agent' repression against Abdulmedzhit Seitumerov, his father and uncle making it clear that the men have been targeted for this civic position. khpg.org/en/1608816049

Russian prosecutor demands 22-year death sentence against 77-year-old political prisoner Volodymyr Ananiev. The prosecution has still not explained what Ananiev is supposed to have done, nor why he was, for so long accused only of explosives charges, and yet is now considered to deserve imprisonment until 92. khpg.org/en/1608816051

Abducted journalist Iryna Levchenko describes torture in a Russian secret prison with slain journalist Victoria Roshchyna & Olha Kapralova. Iryna Levchenko, who turns 65 on 16 September, provided vital evidence about a Russian torture prison where she was held and tortured with Olha and Hennadiy Kapralov, Victoria Roshchyna and Father Kostiantyn Maksymov. khpg.org/en/1608816042

Trapped Oleshky residents face starvation in Russian-made humanitarian blockade. Russia has turned the life of the remaining residents of Oleshky, including children, into a battle for survival and is blocking their safe evacuation, even to areas under Russian occupation. khpg.org/en/1608816047

Oleksandra Strilets' infant daughter dies in occupied Crimea after Russia imprisons her mother for supposed ‘treason’. Lera was in a neonatal intensive care unit when her mother was sentenced by an illegal occupation 'court' to 12 years and taken into custody, together with Lera's grandmother who suffers from multiple sclerosis. khpg.org/en/1608816040

Russian fighters execute two Ukrainian prisoners of war in Donetsk oblast. Aside from the charges against Ukrainian political prisoners, there are almost no crimes so serious that a Russian prisoner cannot buy his freedom by agreeing to kill Ukrainians, with these the men receiving criminal orders to gun down prisoners of war. khpg.org/en/1608816041

Russia doubles to 21 years its sentence against savagely tortured Crimean Tatar political prisoner Mamut Belyalov. Mamut Belyalov has been in Russian captivity since 10 September 2022, with it now claimed that the young man, who was just 24, committed ‘treason’ against the aggressor state. khpg.org/en/1608816036

Russia comes for father of 19-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner after he actively sought her release. Nasiba Saidova, who was just 18 when arrested on 15 October 2025, two other very young women and Esma Nimetulayeva, a mother of five, are imprisoned for their religious beliefs and accused of ‘seeking to violently seize power’. khpg.org/en/1608816033

Russia sentences husband and wife, abducted from occupied Kherson oblast, to 16 and 12 years for supporting Ukraine. The Russian invaders seized the parents of three boys, two of them underage, and called the couple's support for Ukraine to be 'treason. khpg.org/en/1608816030

New depths plummeted in Russia’s torment of Crimean Tatar political prisoner with a malignant brain tumour. While deliberately postponing hearings on the evident grounds for Tofik Abdulgaziev's release, a Russian court has convicted him of 'contempt of court' for expressing outrage over a brutal deception aimed at rubberstamping his continued imprisonment. khpg.org/en/1608816024

Russia sentences abducted 64-year-old Melitopol journalist to 15 years after holding her incommunicado since 2023. Russia did not admit to holding Iryna Levchenko for years, and the charges were never clear. This is doubtless in part because all that the aggressor state could come up with is so manifestly absurd. khpg.org/en/1608816023

Abducted Melitopol woman tells Russian court how she was tortured with electric currents and mystery injections. As well as their usual arsenal of torture methods, the Russians also threatened reprisals against 53-year-old Olha Kapralova's children and grandchildren. khpg.org/en/1608816019