Russia has committed flagrant human rights abuses in Ukraine since 2014, rules ECHR

<p>Extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour among accusations upheld by court in judgment</p><p>Russia has committed flagrant and unprecedented abuses of human rights since it invaded <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</a> in 2014, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour, the European court of human rights has found.</p><p>The court’s grand chamber unanimously held that between 11 May 2014 and 16 September 2022, when Russia ceased to be a party to the European convention on human rights it had committed “manifestly unlawful conduct … on a massive scale”.</p><p>Indiscriminate military attacks</p><p>Summary executions of civilians and Ukrainian military personnel</p><p>Torture, including the use of rape as a weapon of war</p><p>Unlawful and arbitrary detention of civilians</p><p>Unjustified displacement and transfer of civilians</p><p>Intimidation, harassment and persecution of all religious groups other than adherents of the historically Moscow-aligned Ukrainian Orthodox church</p><p>Intimidation and violence against journalists and new laws prohibiting and penalising the dissemination of information in support of Ukraine</p><p>Forcible dispersal by the Russian military of peaceful protests in occupied towns and cities</p><p>Destruction, looting and expropriation of property</p><p>Suppression of the Ukrainian language in schools and indoctrination of Ukrainian schoolchildren</p><p>Transfer to Russia, and in many cases, the adoption there of Ukrainian children</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/09/russia-has-committed-flagrant-human-rights-abuses-in-ukraine-since-2014-rules-echr">Continue reading...</a>