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• Topics / Freedom of conscience and religion
Russia makes talking about the Bible an ‘extremist activity’ in occupied Crimea
04.06.2020
Russia has carried out new armed searches of the homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses in occupied Crimea with 29-year-old father of two, Artem Shabliy arrested and facing criminal charges for his faith
“Mama, have they come to kill us?” Russia’s new-old terror and deportation of Crimean Tatars
02.06.2020
Uzeir and his brother, Teymur Abdullayev, were among five Crimean Tatars arrested on 12 October 2016 on charges relating solely to their faith, and deported to Russian prisons, where they are held to this day.
Three ‘prosecution witnesses’ unexpectedly expose lies in Russia’s trial of Crimean Tatar civic activists
29.05.2020
During the course of the last court hearings in May, three ‘prosecution witnesses’ in Russia’s trial of eight Ukrainian political prisoners gave testimony against the prosecution, including one who testified in court that he did not know the defendants at all
Jehovah’s Witness in Russian-occupied Crimea gets 6 years for ‘undermining state security’ by praying at home
27.05.2020
Filatov 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”
Political prisoners deported to Russia speak out on anniversary of Crimean Tatar Deportation
19.05.2020
During a court hearing on 18 May, eight political prisoners honoured the victims of Stalin’s 1944 Deportation and pointed to the new methods of terror and intimidation that Moscow is now using against Crimean Tatars
Ukraine takes vital step to protect Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Crimea
13.05.2020
Moscow must understand that the forced dissolution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Crimea will have identical consequences for the Russian Orthodox Church in mainland Ukraine, Archbishop Klyment, Head of the beleaguered Church in Crimea has said
17-year sentence for following the law and his faith. A Crimean Tatar story under Russian occupation
12.05.2020
“What is happening today in relation to me and to all the Crimean Tatar people, to Crimean Muslims, is politically motivated persecution for dissidence"
Entire Crimean Tatar families persecuted under Russian occupation “We’ll have time to shoot you all!”
08.05.2020
It is a year since the Russian FSB arrested Ruslan Suleimanov, a physics teacher and Crimean Solidarity civic journalist. Three months later, they came for his brother and fellow civic activist, Eskender
Mounting religious persecution as Russia imposes monopoly on faith in occupied Crimea
27.04.2020
This year alone, three Crimean Imams have faced prosecution for praying in their own mosques, with Russia claiming this to be ‘unlawful missionary activity’. Serhiy Filatov, a Jehovah’s Witness from Dzhankoy is imprisoned, awaiting his appeal against a six-year prison sentence for having worshipped with others in his own home
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
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