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• Topics / Freedom of conscience and religion
The final brutality in Russia’s war against Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea
28.10.2020
Dying alone, because Russia’s FSB has imprisoned their sons without any crime
Jehovah’s Witness faces years in prison for practising his faith in Russian occupied Crimea
22.10.2020
A new trial has begun in Sevastopol of Viktor Stashevsky, the latest Jehovah’s Witness to be facing a long term of imprisonment for praying and practising his faith in Russian-occupied Crimea
Persecution of Crimean Tatars and huge sentences as career moves for Russian FSB
20.10.2020
The latest trial without a crime that Russia brought to occupied Crimea is ending, with the prosecutor demanding an 18-year sentence against Crimean Tatar civic activist Rustem Emiruseinov, 16 and 15 years against Eskender Abdulganiev and Arsen Abkhairov
Punitive psychiatry used against blind political prisoner in Russian-occupied Crimea
16.10.2020
There are grounds for fearing that the FSB are planning to get Alexander Sizikov incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital as his physical disabilities are too severe for even a Russian court to sentence him to ordinary imprisonment
Crimean Tatar civic journalist Marlen Asanov gets 19-year sentence because he refused to leave occupied Crimea
12.10.2020
Crimean Tatar civic journalist and political prisoner, Marlen Asanov was told by a Russian FSB investigator that it was his own fault that he was imprisoned. They had given him warnings to leave Crimea, and he hadn’t listened
ECHR issues crucial judgement against Russia over secret witnesses used to jail Crimean Tatar political prisoners
07.10.2020
The European Court of Human Rights has found that Russia violated the right to a fair trial of three men because of the unwarranted use of ‘secret witnesses’ to convict them
Memet Belyalov: 18-year sentence for discussing religion in Russian-occupied Crimea
06.10.2020
If Russia is allowed to have its way, Memet Belyalov’s son, Ali will have come of age before his father, a Crimean Solidarity civic activist and recognized political prisoner, is released from Russian imprisonment
Four Jehovah’s Witnesses imprisoned for their faith in Russian-occupied Crimea
02.10.2020
Although Yevhen Zhukov; Volodymyr Maladyka; Volodymyr Sakada and Ihor Schmidt are accused of ‘organizing the work of an extremist organization’ (under Article 282.2 § 1 of Russia’s criminal code), the charges pertain solely to their peaceful practising of their faith
Huge sentences as Russia’s weapon against religious independence in occupied Crimea
30.09.2020
The renowned Memorial Human Rights Centre has condemned Russia’s persecution of four Crimean Tatars, including the head of an independent religious community in Alushta, and has declared all four men to be political prisoners
Crimean Tatar political prisoner Timur Ibragimov in court: I did not invade another country’s territory and terrorize its people
25.09.2020
In his final address to the Russian court that sentenced him on 16 September 2020 to 17 years for no crime, Crimean Solidarity civic journalist Timur Ibragimov gave a searingly blunt assessment of Russia’s persecution of him and other dissidents in occupied Crimea
Mother of Crimean Tatar prisoner of conscience prosecuted for solitary picket in his defence
24.09.2020
The Russian-controlled police in occupied Crimea have initiated administrative proceedings against Venera Mustafayeva after she stood on the street alone, with a placard reading “Conversations in a mosque are not a crime – bring back my son”
Russia sentences 19 men to over 300 years’ imprisonment without any crime
22.09.2020
The ruling is a shocking travesty of justice and one that Ukraine should not ignore, as Russia is staging the same fatally flawed ‘trials’ in occupied Crimea
Russia will imprison all Crimean Solidarity journalists & activists if Ukrainians and the West let it
21.09.2020
Any silence from western countries, the Ukrainian Diaspora and from human rights and journalist organizations will be taken by Russia as a carte blanche for further persecution.
Russia sentences Seiran Saliyev to 16 years on same political charges as his great-grandfather in Soviet times
21.09.2020
A Russian court on 16 September 2020 sentenced Crimean Tatar civic journalist Seiran Saliyev to 16 years’ imprisonment on an identical charge to that used by the Soviet regime against his great-grandfather.
Acquittal and monstrous sentences in Russia’s offensive against Crimean Tatar civic journalists & activists
17.09.2020
f Russia was hoping through the wonderful acquittal of Ernes Ametov to prove that these are real ‘trials’ before independent courts, there is no chance. All eight civic journalists and activists have long been recognized as political prisoners, and all should have been acquitted.
State honour in Ukraine as Russia prepares horrific sentence against Crimean Solidarity Coordinator
15.09.2020
I don’t want my children, my people to live in a country of threats and intimidation; of humiliation and torture; of abductions and illegal arrests; of aggression and repression. I know that everyone is against all of that, against what is happening in Crimea - Server Mustafayev
Russia uses Ukrainian turncoat & fugitive from justice to seek 146 years’ imprisonment for Crimean Tatar activists
14.09.2020
The prosecution’s case is essentially based on the testimony of a Ukrainian turncoat, now working for the Russian FSB; two secret witnesses whose identity and motives for testifying are known and the ‘expert assessments’ of three people with no expert knowledge of the subject.
Imprisoned Crimean Tatar human rights defender thrown in punishment cell for asking a question
10.09.2020
Russia is illegally holding Emir-Usein Kuku and four other Ukrainian prisoners of conscience thousands of kilometres from their homes, and in conditions that are freezing for men accustomed to the warm climate of Crimea
Russia uses multiple clone trials to hide mass operation against Crimean Tatar human rights movement
04.09.2020
The real aim of five clone trials is almost certainly to deflect attention from Russia’s most brazen attack to date on Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists informing the world about violations in occupied Crimea and helping the victims of persecution
Russia hides Crimean Tatar prisoner of conscience suffering from Covid-19
28.08.2020
A week has passed since Muslim Aliev’s family learned that the Ukrainian political prisoner and Amnesty International prisoner of conscience was suffering from coronavirus, and they have no idea even where he is being held
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