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Russia’s insane trial of Crimean Tatar political prisoner Ismet Ibragimov 'borders on fantasy'
01.02.2022
Neighbours of recognized Crimean Tatar political prisoner Ismet Ibragimov have expressed their bemusement at the indictment which borders, they say, on sheer fantasy.
12-year 'death sentence' demanded for 64-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner who refused to collaborate with Russia's FSB
24.01.2022
Russian prosecutor Sergei Aidinov has demanded a 12-year sentence against Zekirya Muratov although he can be in no doubt that this would be a death sentence for the 64-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner who has grave health problems.
Russian prosecutor seeks 18-year sentences against Crimean Tatar journalist, human rights defender and civic activists
18.01.2022
Russian prosecutor Yevgeny Kolpikov has demanded sentences from 16 to 18.5 years against Crimean Tatar journalist Remzi Bekirov; human rights defender Riza Izetov; and three civic activists Rayim Aivazov; Farkhod Bazarov and Shaban Umerov
Vermin, filth and cold in Russia’s torture of imprisoned Crimean Tatar journalists and activists
14.01.2022
At least seven Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists are imprisoned in conditions which are tantamount to torture and place their life in danger
Crimean Tatar veteran’s civic journalist son sentenced to 16 years by Russia on same charges as Stalin used against her grandfather
06.01.2022
There was never any possibility that Seiran Saliyev would look the other way as repression mounted in Crimea under Russian occupation, and he has paid a huge price, with a Russian court sentencing him to 16 years
Francis Fukuyama thanks imprisoned Crimean Tatar journalist Osman Arifmemetov for reporting on Russia's repression in occupied Crimea
31.12.2021
Fukuyama's statement is important since Russia is not only using grotesque ‘terrorism’ charges as a weapon against Crimean Tatar journalists and civic activists, but also claiming that those who speak out in their defence are ‘justifying terrorism’.
FSB officer doubles as 'secret witness' for Russia's trial of 64-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner
29.12.2021
A Russian court has refused to call in a key ‘witness’ in the trial of 64-year-old Zekirya Muratov, with the only possible reason being that the judges are as well aware as the prosecutor that this individual is an FSB agent
Fugitive from justice in Latvia used to fake trial of Crimean Tatar political prisoners
14.12.2021
The insane ‘terrorism’ charges against Oleh Fedorov and Ernest Ibragimov are based on conversations about religion and on the ‘testimony’ of two ‘anonymous witnesses’ whom the FSB has significant leverage over
FSB provocation used for ‘easy’ 15-year sentences against Crimean Tatar political prisoners in Russian-occupied Crimea
19.11.2021
Two Crimean Tatars, Lenur Seidametov and Timur Yalkabov, are facing 15-year sentences on the basis of an illicitly taped conversation five years ago with an unidentified individua, first in a mosque, then over a cup of tea
Council of Europe collaborates with Russian agency persecuting Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners
15.11.2021
CoE’s endorsement of Rosfinmonitoring may soon become even more staggering, as the body may be used against people accused of financing ‘unauthorized’ peaceful protest
Crimean Tatar prisoner of conscience sentenced to 19 years for religious 'dissidence' faces new torment in Russian prison
10.11.2021
Muslim Aliev was arrested on 11 February 2016, together with human rights activist Emir-Usein Kuku and two other men in an FSB ‘operation’ of unprecedented brutality
Blind Crimean political prisoner prevented from reading why Russia wants to imprison him for 20 years
06.11.2021
Russia’s Military Court of Appeal in Vlasikha has overturned a ruling which would have allowed Crimean political prisoner Oleksandr Sizikov to find out what exactly he is accused of.
Horrific sentences against Crimean Tatar civic journalist and three members of one family for planted ‘prohibited literature’
29.10.2021
UPDATED A Russian court has passed appalling sentences against two sons of a renowned Crimean Tatar historian and their uncle, as well as of a civic journalist with a life-threatening heart condition
Russia brings 17-year sentences without any crime to occupied Crimea
26.10.2021
Rustem Emiruseinov, Eskender Abdulganiev and Arsen Abkhairov have learned first-hand the terribly high price Russia exacts from those unwilling to look away when fellow Crimean Muslims are facing persecution
Six-year sentence for reading the Bible in Russian-occupied Crimea
25.10.2021
A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has sentenced 49-year-old Igor Schmidt to six years’ imprisonment for practising his faith as a Jehovah’s Witness.
Huge sentences and mass detentions for Crimean Tatar solidarity
12.10.2021
Fifteen Crimean Tatars were detained on 11 October merely for gathering outside a ‘court’ in occupied Crimea to show solidarity with three political prisoners, facing 17,13 and 12-year sentences for similar acts of solidarity
Russian court ignores falsified evidence and dodgy 'witnesses' in trial of Crimean Tatar political prisoners
06.10.2021
The court chooses not to see the dodgy nature of an unqualified ‘expert assessment’ and testimony’ of two secret witnesses, one of whom faces prison in Latvia if he refuses to collaborate with the FSB
Fake ‘religious expert’ exposed in Russia’s ‘trial’ of 25 Crimean Tatar journalists and civic activists
01.10.2021
The FSB’s ‘religious expert’ clearly has no idea of the names of the prophets, religious figures, etc. – just what the FSB want him to say to get men imprisoned for 20 years
Gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner beaten by staff in Russian prison hospital
30.09.2021
The physical violence and shocking religious discrimination that Servet Gaziev suffered was probably in reprisal for refusing to vote in Russia’s ‘elections’
Crimean civic activists face 15-year sentences for talking about religion five years ago
28.09.2021
Russia’s FSB have based the ‘terrorism’ charges laid against Oleh Fedorov* and Ernest Ibragimov on discussions of religious themes although the conversations were illicitly taped back in 2016 and January 2017.
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