About this database
The database records Ukrainian civilians prosecuted by Russia's courts and by the courts Russia has installed in the occupied territories. Each person has a stable ID and a record of every known court event: detention, charge or trial, and sentence. When a person appears in later months, for an appeal or a verdict, the new event is added to the same record.
Coverage
October 2026 is covered systematically. Earlier cases, from 2015 to September 2026, were added on 12 November 2026 from Memorial's case cards for Ukrainians prosecuted by Russia, MIHR's monthly reviews of convicted civilians (April 2024 to October 2026) and verdicts posted by the occupation Zaporizhzhia regional court; no month before October 2026 is complete. New months are added as they are compiled. Totals for any month are minimum figures: they count only cases that became public.
Who is included
- Civilians from occupied Crimea, Sevastopol, and the occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts, wherever they were tried, including courts inside Russia such as the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don.
- Ukrainian citizens tried in Russia on politically motivated charges.
- Civilians detained without charge by Russian forces or occupation authorities (abduction, 'filtration', incommunicado detention), since 2014, including in areas occupied in 2022 and since liberated, and including people later released, exchanged, deported or killed.
- Excluded: prisoners of war and serving soldiers, verdicts by Ukrainian courts, and in-absentia verdicts. Where civilian status is in doubt, the person is included and marked.
Sources
Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG), ZMINA, the Crimean Human Rights Group, the Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR), Memorial's political-prisoner support project, OVD-Info and Perviy Otdel; and three Telegram channels: the Centre for the Study of Occupation, which monitors occupation announcements, and two occupation-side channels, the Russian-installed Zaporizhzhia regional court's press channel and Krymsky SMERSH, which repeats FSB statements. Claims from occupation-side channels are the prosecution's version.
Earlier cases also come from published reports and monitored media held in the TOT Insights research archive: reports by OHCHR, the UN Commission of Inquiry, Human Rights Watch, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, the Coalition 'Justice for Peace in Donbas', the Raphael Lemkin Centre, Almenda and others, cited by title and page; and pro-Russian Telegram and TV announcements of detentions recorded in TOT Insights' media monitoring, cited by channel and date. Testimony given to researchers in confidence is not included.
Further earlier cases come from the Office of the President's Representative in Crimea (its list and map of Crimean political prisoners), the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Crimean Solidarity, Krym.Realii (RFE/RL), the Center for Civil Liberties (including its map of enforced disappearances), the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, the Eastern Human Rights Group and Mediazona; from the Southern District Military Court's own website (case lists and press releases; people whose names the court hides, and people whose only link to Ukraine is a treason charge, are not added unless another source names them); and from the press channels of the Russian-installed courts in Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson oblasts, which give only initials or no names. Claims from courts and occupation-side channels are the prosecution's version.
Crime types
- Treason or espionage: Russian Criminal Code art. 275, 275.1, 276.
- Terrorism: art. 205, 205.1, 205.3, 205.4, or an alleged bombing or attack.
- Hizb ut-Tahrir: art. 205.5 and 278 in Hizb ut-Tahrir cases, a movement that is legal in Ukraine.
- Explosives or weapons: art. 222, 222.1, 223, 223.1.
- Sabotage: art. 281 and related articles, including arson of railway equipment.
- Online posts or comments: art. 205.2, 207.3, 280, 280.3, 280.4, 282, or charges over comments and posts.
- Financing Ukraine's forces: cases over donations or money transfers to Ukraine's armed forces, usually prosecuted as treason.
Crime types are a TOT Insights classification from the articles and charges reported. A person can have several.
Names and personal details
People are listed by first name and the initial of their surname, and the same applies wherever another detainee, relative or co-defendant is mentioned in a record. Judges, prosecutors and occupation officials are named in full. People the sources did not name are recorded as unnamed. Where the authorities did not name someone and a rights group has identified them from the details, the entry carries a caution. Only year of birth is published here. The linked sources give the details as they published them.
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