Extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour among accusations upheld by court in judgmentRussia has committed flagrant and unprecedented abuses of human rights since it invaded Ukraine in 2014, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour, the European court of human rights has found.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”.Indiscriminate military attacksSummary executions of civilians and Ukrainian military personnelTorture, including the use of rape as a weapon of warUnlawful and arbitrary detention of civiliansUnjustified displacement and transfer of civiliansIntimidation, harassment and persecution of all religious groups other than adherents of the historically Moscow-aligned Ukrainian Orthodox churchIntimidation and violence against journalists and new laws prohibiting and penalising the dissemination of information in support of UkraineForcible dispersal by the Russian military of peaceful protests in occupied towns and citiesDestruction, looting and expropriation of propertySuppression of the Ukrainian language in schools and indoctrination of Ukrainian schoolchildrenTransfer to Russia, and in many cases, the adoption there of Ukrainian children Continue reading...