. The sentence was passed on a member of the indigenous people of Crimea, in the language and in a newspaper of that indigenous people, at the beginning of the 20th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

The FSB attached electric wires to Vladislav Yesypenko’s ear lobes and kept increasing the electric current until the pain was so unendurable that he „would admit to whatever they wanted”

Rustem Sheikhaliev recently entered the same Russian court where he had, on so many occasions, reported on political trials. This time, however, it was he who was brought to the court in handcuffs

Bekir Mamutov is on trial in Russian-occupied Crimea for publishing a UN report which mentions the Mejlis,, or self-governing body, of the Crimean Tatar people

A new, disturbingly Soviet, weapon has been added to Russia’s arsenal of repression in occupied Crimea

A Russian-controlled Crimean TV channel has broadcast an ‘interview’ with Vladislav Yesypenko a week after the Ukrainian journalist was seized in occupied Crimea.

Almost a week after Vladislav Yesypenko was seized in Russian-occupied Crimea, the FSB are preventing the freelance journalist from seeing an independent lawyer

Radio Meydan FM stopped broadcasting to occupied Crimea on 1 March, only the second time that this first Crimean Tatar radio station has been silenced

One of the very few sources of truthful information about Russian-occupied Crimea is in danger of falling silent with the threat coming not from the Russian aggressor state, but from Ukraine’s government

A new criminal prosecution appears to be underway in occupied Crimea, with the pretext being a social media post over corruption, with this treated as ‘defamation’

The three channels: 112.ua; NewsOne and Zik have been identified by media monitors as responsible for over 50% of the pro-Russian propaganda and disinformation in Ukraine, however there may well be questions over the move’s legality. 

The SBU’s arrest of Edward Kovalenko comes 13 months after the supposed notorious Ukrainian ‘far-right nationalist’s’ release was demanded and obtained by Russia and its proxy Luhansk ‘republic’

If Russia’s frightening militarization of childhood at home is aimed at getting young people to love and want to ‘defend’ their country, in occupied Crimea, Russia also wants children to hate Ukraine

One of a barrage of repressive laws with implications for occupied Crimea is one steeply increasing punishment for something loosely termed ‘defamation’

Russia has begun its most overtly repressive mass trial of Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists three days before New Year in an obvious attempt to minimize publicity for ‘trials’ aimed at c silencing those who tell the world about Russia"s violations in occupied Crimea

The ‘police’ in Russian-occupied Crimea effectively abducted Vilen Temeryanov on 28 December, holding the Crimean Solidarity civic journalist in custody on nonsensical charges of ‘organizing a mass event’

Ukraine’s Security Service [SBU] have initiated criminal charges against 80-year-old retired teacher, Volodymyr Tereshchenko over a picture and caption he merely reposted on Facebook over two years ago

The trial has begun in Russian-occupied Crimea of Aider Kadyrov, a civic journalist reporting on human rights violations for Crimean Solidarity and the Russian website Grani.ru

The question is – where in Ukraine ends the freedom of expression and starts the state treason? The boundary between them is not defined.

The man accused of the savage killing in 2014 of Ukrainian journalist and Maidan activist Vasyl Serhiyenko was released from custody on 3 December despite protests from both the public prosecutor and civic activists