61-year-old Servet Gaziev has almost certainly suffered a micro stroke after months of acute pain and dangerously high blood pressure, and shortly after clear signs that he had contracted Covid-19

For innocuous conversations on religious topics, civic activist Emil Ziyadinov is likely to receive an 18-20 year sentence.

Two anonymous witnesses have vanished from Russia’s ‘trial’ of 25 Crimean Tatar activists after the lies in the ‘testimony’ of other supposed witnesses were exposed

59-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov has life-threatening medical conditions which probably caused the heart attack which led to his urgent hospitalization. 61-year-old Servet Gaziev was sent back to prison, suffering agonizing pain

The authoritative Memorial Human Rights Centre has declared Vadim Bektemirov a political prisoner and stated clearly that Russia is persecuting him for his faith and for his civic position in occupied Crimea

A Russian prosecutor has demanded horrifically long sentences of up to 19 years’ imprisonment against four internationally acknowledged Crimean Tatar political prisoners, not one of whom is accused of any recognizable crime

Teymur Abdullayev has spent 14 months in a ‘punishment cell’ almost certainly for his refusal to provide the FSB with false testimony aimed at imprisoning other Crimean Tatars who have committed no crime

Zekirya Muratov was arrested two months after he refused to collaborate with an FSB officer, former Ukrainian turncoat Aleksander Kompaneitsev, by providing false testimony against fellow Crimean Tatars

Instead of releasing 61-year-old Servet Gaziev as demanded by all democratic countries and international bodies, Russia is effectively torturing him and directly placing his life in jeopardy

Seitumer Seitumerov has reminded a Ukrainian traitor and Russian court that in 2014 Russian soldiers without insignia committed all of the crimes that Russia is now accusing him, his brother and many other Crimean Tatar political prisoners of

Civic journalist Osman Arifmemetov reported on Russia’s countless political trials of Crimean Tatars. He is now facing the same insane charges himself

The FSB brought their own ‘witnesses’ who could be relied upon to not notice them planting ‘prohibited’ religious literature, and kept out lawyers who would certainly have cried foul

The Russian FSB came for Ernest Seitosmanov at 6 a.m. on 28 April, almost exactly three years after the first such armed ‘search’ which ended with his brother, Enver, arrested and later sentenced to 17 years without any crime

Almost exactly two years after Rayim Aivazov was seized by FSB officers and tortured, one of his abductors has appeared at the civic activist’s ‘trial’ as witness for the prosecutio

This is one of two prosecutions after an effective raid on the mosque in Alushta on 30 March and part of an aggressive offensive against a Muslim community clearly viewed as ‘too independent’.

As has been the case in all analogous trials involving Muslims and Jehovah’s Witnesses from occupied Crimea, the ‘indictment’ against Rayis Mavliutov pointed only to legal activities normal for any devout believer

The four recognized Crimean Tatar political prisoners from Alushta whose trial at the notorious Southern District Military Court in Rostov (Russia) is now ending include the head of the ‘Alushta’ religious community and one of its members

Russia has carried out four ‘bulk’ arrests thus far in occupied Crimea which enable the FSB to claim ‘good statistics’ on fighting ‘terrorism’ while terrorising Crimean Tatar families.

55-year-old Viktor Stashevsky has been sentenced by a Russian-controlled court in Crimea to six and a half years’ imprisonment for reading the Bible and praying together with fellow believers

In occupied Crimea, Russia has not been able to totally conceal its human rights violations, but it is undoubtedly trying. including by imprisoning civic journalists and activists