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The Kremlin has recruited tens of thousands of prisoners since the war began to create its "Storm-Z" squads.

Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists, and Ukrainian members of several other religious organizations refuse to take up arms even during the ongoing existential war. NV spoke to two such conscientious objectors to examine how they attempt reconcile the need to defend their country with pacifist religious beliefs.

Varanasi: The Mirzapur police arrested a person for allegedly tying a youth upside down to a tree and thrashing him on the suspicion of stealing mobil.

A human rights activist group wrote that troops were allegedly punished by being tied to a tree overnight in the cold rain.

A report by the Movement of Conscientious Objectors (DSO) revealed that a Russian military officer tied soldiers to a tree as punishment for refusing

The Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (UCCRO) and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met on Oct. 19 to discuss alternatives to military service for conscientious objectors.

The Peace Pledge Union urged the new Defence Secretary to make a clean break with his predecessor's enthusiastic support for arms companies, high military spending and the provision of military training to tyrannies such as Saudi Arabia.

Following the denial of political asylum by the Lithuanian authorities for the Belarusian peace builder and human rights defender Olga Karatch (Volha

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Ukraine — On just the fifth day of the war, Mykhailo Yavorsky decided to pay a visit to a local military enlistment office, not to enlist in the battle against the invading Russian forces but to explain why he could not. “Please excuse me, I cannot fight, I will not shoot,” Yavorsky, 40, said he told the officers last year. “I can help you with something else.” Yavorsky said he wanted to support Ukraine but only in accordance with “bibli...

Our Home, a Belarusian human rights NGO operating in Lithuania, will be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the organis...