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Crimean Tatar jailed for 17 years for “planning to overthrow Russia” by practising his faith
17.04.2020
A Russian court on 16 April upheld the 17-year sentence against recognized Crimean Tatar political prisoner Enver Seitosmanov
Russia imprisons father, son & son-in-law for their faith and civic activism in occupied Crimea
08.04.2020
A father and son are two of three men arrested in June 2019 in Russian-occupied Crimea and about to go on ‘trial’ for their faith and for the support they showed to other political prisoners
Crimean Tatar journalist Remzi Bekirov faces 20-year sentence for reporting repression
03.04.2020
Remzi Bekirov annoyed the Russian FSB by reporting on political persecution in Crimea. and they came for him also
Crimean Tatar human rights activist faces 20-year sentence for refusing to be silenced
31.03.2020
Riza Izetov is one of the 23 Crimean Tatar civic activists and journalists seized by the Russian FSB on 27 March 2019 and imprisoned on fabricated ‘terrorism’ charges
25 Crimean Tatar activists charged with trying to violently overthrow Russia through their words
27.03.2020
Six years after Russia invaded and annexed Ukrainian Crimea, its FSB has charged 25 Crimean Tatar political prisoners with “planning a violent seizure of power and change in Russia’s constitutional order”
Osman Arifmemetov, Crimean Solidarity journalist imprisoned for his words in Russian-occupied Crimea
23.03.2020
Arifmemetov reacted to the mounting number of political prisoners in occupied Crimea by reporting on repression and helping its victims. Then the FSB came for him
Crimean Tatar political prisoners refused coronavirus test despite alarming symptoms
20.03.2020
Two of the eight Crimean Tatar civic activists on trial in Russia have a temperature, a dry cough and / or other symptoms associated with coronavirus, yet no tests have been carried out, despite the evident danger to all of the men
Russia uses torture-like conditions to try to break imprisoned Crimean Tatar civic activists
17.03.2020
25 Crimean Tatar civic activists and journalists are being held in Russia, in conditions tantamount to torture either to try to break them, or in revenge because all the men understand that the charges against them are political and refuse to be cowered
Russian FSB plants “prohibited literature” to imprison Crimean Tatar activists for 10 years or more
12.03.2020
Russia has carried out a new wave of armed searches and arrests in occupied Bakhchysarai, this time targeting two sons of a renowned Crimean Tatar historian and a TV ATR presenter, now living in mainland Ukraine, who has provided coverage of political repression under Russian occupation
Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to 6 years for praying at home in Russian-occupied Crimea
06.03.2020
Serhiy Filatov has become the first Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witness to be imprisoned for practising his faith in Russian-occupied Crimea. He was found to have prayed, together with others, in his own home, which the Russian-controlled prosecutor and court chose to view as “undermining constitutional order and state security”.
Russian court expels Crimean Tatar defendants from court for asserting their rights
05.03.2020
The latest hearing in the “trial” of eight Crimean Tatar political prisoners took place on 4 March without any of the defendants present after the latter insisted on asking hard-hitting questions
Imam found guilty of “missionary activity” for holding prayers in Russian-occupied Crimea
03.03.2020
Russia is illegally applying its dangerously fuzzy legislation on “unlawful missionary activity”, with the latest target a Muslim prosecuted for leading the daily prayers in a mosque.
Russia uses Trial by Fake Secret Witnesses to imprison Crimean Tatars
28.02.2020
The questioning on 26 February of a ‘secret prosecution witness’ in the trial of three Crimean Tatar political prisoners was the stuff that comedies are made of. Or would have been, except that all three men are facing sentences of up to 20 years for no recognizable crime
Russia seeks record sentence against Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witness in occupied Crimea
26.02.2020
Russia has marked the sixth anniversary of its invasion of Crimea by proposing to sentence Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witness, Serhiy Filatov, to seven years in a maximum security prison for supposedly “undermining state security” by practising his faith.
Russian "experts" claim calls to pray for political prisoners are proof of terrorism
19.02.2020
International outrage over Russia’s huge sentences against seven young men from Penza for involvement in an entirely fictitious “Network” is undoubtedly warranted, however frustratingly selective
Jehovah’s Witness faces 6.5 year prison sentence for religious services in Russian-occupied Crimea
14.02.2020
A Russian prosecutor has demanded a six and a half year sentence against Artem Gerasimov, a Jehovah’s Witness from Yalta in occupied Crimea
Bitter echoes of Stalin’s Deportation in Russia’s persecution of Crimean Tatars
10.02.2020
The beatings and primitive brutality that Crimean Tatar civic activists and journalists confront from their Russian captors bring to mind the harrowing tales of 1944 that they heard from their grandparents
Russia lies to conceal critical condition of Crimean Tatar political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov
05.02.2020
58-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov suffers form several life-threatening medical conditions which should preclude his imprisonment, yet Russia is refusing to release him and simply lying about his condition
Ukrainian authorities copy Russia and carry out raid outside Kyiv Mosque
31.01.2020
The Ukrainian authorities have once again copied the worst behaviour of the Russian occupation regime in Crimea, and have most cynically chosen to do so on Friday, a special day of prayer for Muslims
Crimean Tatar political prisoners face surreal terrorism charges that the prosecutor can’t explain
30.01.2020
Three Crimean Tatar political prisoners have told a court in Russia that they are Ukrainian citizens, with the two of them who also have Russian citizenship saying that it was forced upon them
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