Human Rights

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  Human Rights

  2023-08-15

  Russia press-gangs men in occupied territories of Ukraine

  Russian forces are snatching men from bus stops as they leave work and sending them straight to the front, rights activists say.

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  Human Rights

  2023-08-09

  Russia pressures migrant workers into signing army contracts for Ukraine front

  Migrant workers from Central Asia say it has become dangerous to be in Russia, where some have been manipulated into signing army contracts.

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  Human Rights

  2023-08-03

  Uptick in Russian authorities' harassment of migrants politically motivated

  Human rights activists are warning of growing human rights violations and harassment of migrant workers by Russian authorities, especially as elections loom and politicians need scapegoats.

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  Human Rights

  2023-07-28

  Lukashenka faces accusations of forced deportation of Ukrainian children

  Belarus reportedly is holding at least 2,150 Ukrainian children against their will, and Belarusian President Lukashenka and other officials have been linked to the illegal deportations.

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  Human Rights

  2023-07-26

  Swelling number of war orphans strains Ukrainian care system

  With the care system under pressure and increasing number of war orphans, authorities are looking to place children in foster homes and with families.

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  Human Rights

  2023-07-25

  Syria, Russia deliberately bombed Syria displacement camps, rights group says

  A series of deliberate attacks on displacement camps was a tactic deployed by the Syrian regime and its allies as a strategy of war, report says.

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  Human Rights

  2023-07-24

  Return to the gulag: Russia opens new prisons for civilians captured in Ukraine

  More than 100 facilities are operating in Russia, in which the regime is illegally holding more than 25,000 'civilian hostages'.

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  Human Rights

  2023-07-21

  'Uncle Vova': Ukrainian mother finds daughter changed by Russian brainwashing

  Kateryna Skopina, a senior Ukrainian military officer, said her daughter went to a kindergarten in a village outside Mariupol where 'there were programmes for brainwashing'.

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  Human Rights

  2023-06-27

  UN report details Russian execution of dozens of Ukrainian civilian detainees

  'Russian armed forces, law enforcement and penitentiary authorities engaged in widespread torture and ill-treatment of civilian detainees,' said a UN official.

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  Human Rights

  2023-06-19

  Conviction of Uzbek rights activist in Russia arouses colleagues' criticism

  Bakhrom Khamroyev's conviction for terrorism-related activities was based on fabricated charges, say other rights activists, adding that such practices are a common tool for repressing Muslims in Russia.