Russia has taken all three sons from Crimean Tatar historian Shukri Seitumerov and his wife Lilia, with the persecution in each case chillingly similar to the charges used during Stalin's Terror to arrest and execute their great-grandfather

Crimean Tatar civic journalist Seiran Saliyev and other Ukrainian political prisoners are held thousands of kilometres from their homes and families

Yuriy Herashchenko and Serhiy Parfenovych face up to ten years’ imprisonment for practising their faith, with no possibility, by definition, of a fair trial.

The indictment and ‘evidence’ against Oleh Fedorov and Ernest Ibragimov were not only based on an identical political trial four years earlier, but one of the men’s voices was not even on the innocent conversation used as ‘evidence’

Russia has now sentenced 25 Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists (including the late Dzhemil Gafarov whom it effectively tortured to death) to 355 years’ imprisonment for refusing to remain silent about its repression in occupied Crimea

Remzi Bekirov was described by a former US Ambassador to Ukraine as “an inspiration, not only to your fellow Ukrainians, but to freedom-loving people around the world"

Crimean Solidarity civic activist Rustem Emiruseinov and two other Crimean Tatars, Arsen Abkhairov and Eskender Abdulganiev, have now been illegally held in the worst of Russian prison cells for six months longer than their sentences demand

Emir-Usein Kuku, a recognized prisoner of conscience, has faced serious kidney problems since an attempted Russian abduction turned into ‘arrest’ after a crowd thwarted the FSB’s plans

This is the worst sentence to date against a Crimean Tatar political prisoner and comes as Russia is increasingly releasing men convicted of real crimes, if they agree to fight in Ukraine

Seven years for murder in Russian-occupied Crimea, 17 years for practising your faith and showing solidarity with Russia's ever-mounting number of political prisoners

A second Russian court has found no problem in passing an effective death sentence, without any crime and without the defendant’s voice even on the tape of an innocuous conversation presented as ‘evidence’ against him

Only Moscow wins when the horrific sentences passed against innocent men, like Ernes Seitosmanov pass without adequate protest

Russia’s FSB have arrested 31-year-old Jehovah’s Witness Maksym Zynchenko in occupied Feodosia bringing to 23 the number of Ukrainians in occupied Crimea either serving sentences or facing ‘trial’ purely for practising their faith

That justice could not be expected was clear from the day Russia launched its worst attack on the Crimean Tatar human rights movement to date, arresting 25 civic journalists and activists

A Russian court has passed huge sentences against three Crimean Muslims on essentially ‘thought crime’ charges, with the longest sentence against a man who is blind and could not have read the books which the FSB planted in his home as ‘evidence’.

The Russian occupation regime has called its forced seizure and looting of the central body of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Crimea “liberation”

In a Russian political trial the court looks the other way even when the FSB’s ‘secret witness’ proves incapable of recognizing the defendant

The ‘trial’ of Murat Mustafayev only eight months after his arrest and his four-year sentence show anything but a more humane side of Russia’s ‘justice system’

A week after it took over the presidency of the United Nations Security Council, Russia has flouted the express order of the UN’s Committee against Torture and set about killing the second Crimean Tatar political prisoner in two months

The charges against recognized Crimean Tatar political prisoner Vadim Bektemirov were based solely on the ‘testimony’ of fake secret witnesses and on a tape in which he expressed his opinion