The order to arrest Nariman Dzhelyal and two other Crimean Tatars doubtless came ‘from above’, but that does not absolve those who tortured the men and fabricated charges against them of direct culpability

Russia’s new attempt to crush the world-renowned International Memorial Society and Memorial Human Rights Centre is backed by an ‘expert assessment’ from a maths teacher and translator

Draft bills now in parliament will finally provide real help and guarantees for political prisoners, POWs and civilian hostages and their families

Russia’s Supreme Court has refused to refer the case of Yury Dmitriev for a cassation review despite glaring procedural irregularities and violations of his right to a fair trial.

Russia’s new offensive against the First Deputy Chair of the Mejlis, Nariman Dzhelyal, is accompanied by a sharp escalation in repressive measures against Crimean Tatars expressing solidarity

Halyna Dovhopola has been able to pass a letter to Graty journalists in which the 66-year-old Crimean pensioner describes how she was seized by FSB officers in November 2019 and the torment she has since endured

Russia’s FSB have substantially increased the charges against Nariman Dzhelyal which they brought shortly after the Deputy Chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis took part in Ukraine’s Crimea Platform

Oleh Prykhodko’s family are increasingly concerned that they have heard nothing from the 63-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner since May of this year

FSB ‘investigator’ Vitaly Vlasov has used torture to fabricate the prosecutions of Nariman Dzhelyal, Asan Akhtemov and journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, while he also takes part in the persecution of Crimean Tatar activists and Jehovah’s Witnesses

Russia’s Supreme Court is to review the case file and rulings in the prosecution of Yury Dmitriev, world-renowned historian of Stalin’s Terror and head of the Karelia branch of the Memorial Society

Vladimir Putin may not succeed in getting Nord Stream 2 launched by Ukraine’s Independence Day, but he certainly reaped maximum propaganda benefits during Angela Merkel’s last visit to Moscow

It is five years since Russia tried, and failed, to convince the world that Ukraine’s Military Intelligence had been thwarted in carrying out ‘terrorist attacks’ in occupied Crimea

The letter from 66-year-old Halyna Dovhopola essentially confirms suspicions that the pensioner was targeted because of her pro-Ukrainian views

Details of the weaponization of a child in Russia’s attack on the world-renowned historian who helped restore the truth about Stalin’s Terror

Two days after Russia’s effective censor, Roskomnadzor, blocked the website of the important human rights initiative Team 29, its Director Ivan Pavlov has announced the group is terminating all activities

Despite widespread protest, Ukraine’s leaders appear determined to hand control over memorialization of Babyn Yar, site of one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust to a project financed by Russian oligarchs identified by the US for their links to Putin

It is no accident that Crimean Tatars increasingly speak of three tragic years: Russia’s first annexation of Crimea in 1783, the 1944 Deportation and 2014.

News that Russia is withdrawing its troops coincided with the seizure of another supposed Ukrainian ‘spy’, as well as an armed ‘operation’ against a Crimean Tatar, also allegedly in connection with the ‘search for terrorists’.

After two acquittals and a sentence much shorter than that demanded, new measures were taken in Russia to secure a long sentence against world-renowned historian of the Soviet Terror, Yury Dmitriev

The authoritative Memorial Human Rights Centre has declared Oleh Prykhodko a political prisoner, finding the case against the 63-year-old Ukrainian activist falsified and lacking in any elements of a crime