⬤ Plus ICC arrest warrants for war crimes.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Ukrainian journalist and former editor abducted from Russian-occupied Henichesk (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 8th)
Russia sentences Ukrainian marine to 20 years for defending Mariupol (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 8th)
‘It wasn’t like this before Russia came’ The state of healthcare in Ukraine’s occupied territories after two years of war (Meduza, March 7th)
‘When I was evacuated, I only had a pair of trousers, shoes, a jacket and my documents’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 6th)
Another wave of searches and detentions of Crimean Tatars (Crimea SOS and others, 6 March)
Crimean Solidarity journalist and activists arrested, their families terrorized, in new Russian offensive against Crimean Tatars (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 6th)
Ominous denials a month after Crimean Tatar father abducted by Russian FSB (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 6th)
Russia’s abuses against civilians in the occupied territories of Ukraine: event during the UN Human Rights Council (Zmina, March 6th)
Absence of law and international control (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 6th)
UN records 104 cases of pro-Ukrainian Crimeans abducted in past 10 years (Ukrainska Pravda, March 5th)
Reshat Ametov and 10 years of Russia’s systematic torture, abductions and killings of civilians for supporting Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 4th)
Russia passes huge conveyor belt sentences against Ukrainians tortured for propaganda videos (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 4th)
All’s fair in art and war: Russia’s plunder of Ukrainian museums (The Insider, February 29th)
News from Ukraine – general
Statement on International Women’s Day (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 8 March)
Ukrainian Women Workers’ Voices (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 8 March)
Your wallet or your life: Ukraine is faced with a hard choice between military necessity and economic recovery (The Insider, March 4th)
‘People Die Because Aid is Delayed’: How Indifference is Killing Ukrainians (Byline Times, March 4th)
War on the Environment (London Ukrainian Review, March 4th) More here.
War-related news from Russia
New bill on army recruitment: “A change in moral priorities” (Meduza, 8 March)
What Russia teaches potential guardians about orphans taken from Ukraine: “Embittered children.” (Meduza, 8 March)
Fundraiser to support Alexei Rozhkov, who faces 22 years in prison (Solidarity Zone, 5 March)
Analysis and comment
Media theorist Svitlana Matviyenko: “War breaks and disrupts the relation between things” (Posle Media, 6 March)
Separating wheat from war: why Polish farmers protest against Ukraine (The Insider, 6 March)
Gaza, Ukraine, Kashmir: “the failure of the current global system”. Interview with Kashmiri historian Hafsa Kanjwal (Commons/ Spil’ne, 5 March)
Together against discrimination: the path to an inclusive society (Centre for Civil Liberties, March 4th)
Research of human rights abuses
ICC issues arrest warrants over Russia’s bombing of Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure as war crimes and a crime against humanity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 6th)
The ICC issued an arrest warrant against the commanders of Russia’s long-range aviation and Black Sea Fleet. A commentary (Centre for Civil Liberties, March 6th)
OSCE Moscow Mechanism will help bring the topic of civilian hostages to the international level – human rights defender (Zmina, March 4th)
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