Those who stopped campaigning when Oleg Sentsov or Stanislav Aseyev were released are cordially invited to join them and other former prisoners in securing the release of all Russia's Ukrainian political prisoners

Those who stopped campaigning when Oleg Sentsov or Stanislav Aseyev were released are cordially invited to join them and other former prisoners in securing the release of all Russia's Ukrainian political prisoners

After seven years of open or effective Russian occupation, Crimea and Eastern Donbas rank close to the worst of the worst in Freedom House’s report Freedom in the World 2021

The sentence was significantly lower than that demanded for Oleh Prykhodko by the prosecutor, but the Russian judges can have been in no doubt that they were sentencing an innocent man to a term of imprisonment that he may not survive

The sentence was significantly lower than that demanded for Oleh Prykhodko by the prosecutor, but the Russian judges can have been in no doubt that they were sentencing an innocent man to a term of imprisonment that he may not survive

There is finally a chance that Russia will answer for the abduction and savage killing of 39-year-old Reshat Ametov on 3 March 2014, and the enforced disappearances of other Crimean Tatars that it brought to occupied Crimea

Moscow has finally achieved its end and brought about the dissolution of one of the country’s most renowned human rights NGOs: ‘For Human Rights’, defending the ever-mounting numbers of political prisoners in Russia and occupied Crimea

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

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

The sadistic treatment came two weeks after Ivan Yatskin’s wife was subjected to a bizarre ‘search’ which may well have been to put pressure on the Ukrainian political prisoner

The sadistic treatment came two weeks after Ivan Yatskin’s wife was subjected to a bizarre ‘search’ which may well have been to put pressure on the Ukrainian political prisoner

The recent use of a World War II veteran for Russia’s politically motivated persecution of opposition leader Alexei Navalny has whetted the appetite of those Russian ruling party politicians responsible for legislating repression

The recent use of a World War II veteran for Russia’s politically motivated persecution of opposition leader Alexei Navalny has whetted the appetite of those Russian ruling party politicians responsible for legislating repression

26 February marks the day when Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians foiled Russia’s attempt to seize control of Crimea without open deployment of soldiers

26 February marks the day when Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians foiled Russia’s attempt to seize control of Crimea without open deployment of soldiers

There would be little chance that 63-year-old Oleh Prykhodko would survive the horrific sentence which most believe to be linked with his pronounced pro-Ukrainian views

There would be little chance that 63-year-old Oleh Prykhodko would survive the horrific sentence which most believe to be linked with his pronounced pro-Ukrainian views

The country which invaded and annexed Ukrainian Crimea is illegally applying the norm in its criminal code on ‘state treason’ in its trial of 66-year-old Halyna Dovhopola

The country which invaded and annexed Ukrainian Crimea is illegally applying the norm in its criminal code on ‘state treason’ in its trial of 66-year-old Halyna Dovhopola

The trial of Odesa civic activist Serhiy Sternenko and the 7-year sentence just passed have been vehemently condemned by former Kremlin hostages, human rights defenders and prominent civic activists