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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
Crimean Tatar civic activist could face life sentence for retracting ‘confession’ given under torture
27.08.2020
Crimean Solidarity activist and political prisoner, Rayim Aivazov has had the charges against him significantly increased , just as the Russian ‘investigators’ threatened when Aivazov retracted a confession which they had extracted through torture
Russia uses dodgy ‘secret witness’ to fabricate proof in trial of Crimean Tatar political prisoners
20.08.2020
The concept of a ‘protected witness’ has a quite different meaning for Russian courts, especially when the aim is to imprison Crimean Tatar political prisoners for up to 20 years without any crime
Russian court moves to silence internationally acclaimed Crimean Tatar lawyer
18.08.2020
A week after a Russian court in Rostov denied Crimean Tatar political prisoner Server Mustafayev his right to defend himself in court, the same judges have filed a formal complaint against one of the defence lawyers on equally unwarranted grounds
Russian court revokes detention of Crimean Tatar civic journalist, but refuses to release him
14.08.2020
It has become so standard that ‘courts’ automatically extend detention without trial of Ukrainian political prisoners, that the hearings are scarcely worth reporting. Except when something goes wrong, which is what happened in the case of Osman Arifmemetov
Court in Russia refuses to hear defence witnesses confirming Crimean Tatar political prisoners’ innocence
13.08.2020
The Russian court in Rostov first refused to allow four defence witnesses to give testimony once it was ascertained that they had nothing to say against the men, and then expelled Server Mustafayev until the end of the trial after the latter tried to object
Ukrainian Orthodox Church in occupied Crimea under imminent threat following Russian Supreme Court decision
05.08.2020
A week after Archbishop Klyment was threatened with criminal prosecution if he did not demolish a Ukrainian Orthodox chapel in Yevpatoria, Russia’s Supreme Court has taken a decision which places in jeopardy the very existence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in occupied Crimea
Russia orders demolition of Ukrainian Orthodox chapel in occupied Crimea and threatens to prosecute Archbishop Klyment
27.07.2020
Archbishop Klyment, Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Crimea, has been ordered to demolish an Orthodox chapel in Yevpatoria, and threatened with criminal prosecution if he does not comply within five days.
Expert demolishes Russian FSB ‘evidence’ against imprisoned Crimean Tatar civic activists
17.07.2020
The evidence is disturbingly primitive and shows a frightening failure to distinguish between Islam and an organization which is legal in Ukraine but which Russia is unwarrantedly treating as ‘terrorist’
Russia’s puppet Crimean leader hides from Crimean Tatar veteran activists outraged by his lies
13.07.2020
Russia’s puppet Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov thanked the FSB for their persecution of seven Crimean Muslims, including a man who is blind and unable to move freely. Aksyonov hid behind closed doors, however, when a group of elderly veterans of the Crimean Tatar national movement arrived, demanding an apology
Blind man among those arrested for Russia’s conveyor belt of terror in occupied Crimea
08.07.2020
Seven men were arrested in occupied Crimea on 7 July 2020 in Russia’s new fabricated ‘Hizb ut-Tahrir’ case, with the FSB having reached new depths and arrested a man who is totally blind
Crimean Tatar political prisoners punished for refusing to take part in Russia’s ’forever Putin referendum’
01.07.2020
Several Crimean Tatar prisoners and their cellmates have been threatened and punished because they refused to take part in the pseudo ‘referendum’ on amendments to Russia’s Constitution
CoE’s Russian partner persecutes 90-year-old believer & hundreds of Crimean & Russian political prisoners
30.06.2020
A Russian body which boasts of collaboration with the Council of Europe has added Rimma Vashchenko, a 90-year-old Jehovah’s Witness to its notorious ‘List of Terrorists and Extremists’, which also contains the names of over 80 Ukrainian political prisoners
Huge sentences upheld for defending human rights and integrity in Russian-occupied Crimea
26.06.2020
A Russian court has refused to revoke horrific sentences against Crimean Tatar human rights activist Emir-Usein Kuku and five other Ukrainian Muslims despite the lack of any crime and a record-breaking number of falsifications
Stalin took Crimean Tatar Dilyara Alieva’s homeland and parents; Putin’s Russia has taken her son
25.06.2020
83-year-old Dilyara Alieva lived through Stalin’s Deportation and, 72-years later relived the horror when Russia’s FSB came to take her son away
Young father sentenced to seven years for refusing to collaborate with the FSB
25.06.2020
In Russian-occupied Crimea, a Ukrainian turncoat has helped the Russian FSB persecute Ukrainians, with many targeted for demonstrating the integrity he lacked
Russian court refuses to consider proof that Crimean Tatar rights activist and 5 other political prisoners should be acquitted
23.06.2020
Russia’s appeal hearing against the 76 years passed down against six Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners has received important attention from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the European Union
Outbreak of Covid-19 in Russian prison holding Ukrainian prisoners of conscience
16.06.2020
All Russian SIZOs are notoriously filthy, unsanitary and overcrowded, meaning that the three men are without any protection against the potentially deadly virus
Family on trial without any crime in Russian-occupied Crimea
08.06.2020
After sentencing one member of a Crimean Tatar family to thirteen and a half years’ imprisonment without any crime, Russia has now fast-tracked the ‘trial’ of the other two men in the family, including 59-year-old grandfather Enver Omerov
Six-year sentence for worship in dramatic escalation of religious persecution in Russian-occupied Crimea
05.06.2020
In a shocking escalation of repression in occupied Crimea, a Russian-controlled court has revoked the fine imposed upon Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witness Artem Gerasimov and sentenced him to six years’ imprisonment
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