Kostiantyn Horlynchenko is the latest victim of the Russian FSB’s attempts to both terrorise the population in occupied Crimea and to claim ‘good statistics’ by fabricating ‘saboteur plots’

This was near certainly a targeted attack on Muslim Aliev, an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience and fellow Crimean Tatar political prisoner Teymur Abdullayev

Russia has, as always, concealed virtually everything about its fast-track ‘treason trial’ against Oksana Senedzhuk, but there is every reason to believe that the charges and horrific sentence are politically motivated

Russia would almost certainly use any 'peace deal' as opportunity to prepare for further aggression, while Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians under Russian occupation would continue to endure mounting terror and repression

Crimean Solidarity journalist Rustem Osmanov and three civic activists are facing huge sentences without any crime on the basis of a ‘secret witness’ already used by the FSB for huge sentences in over ten other cases

All of the perpetrators need to be identified and punished for their role in this horrific travesty of justice against Asan Akhtemov and his cousin, Aziz Akhtemov

Russian legislators have dangerously broadened the definition of charges standardly used against Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages, while also extending the range of targets

A new law just passed has handed Russia’s FSB yet another “powerful weapon of persecution” against those who tell the truth about Russia’s war crimes and about Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation

The fact that Lenur Ibragimov may have earlier faced prosecution for peaceful civic activism, and that one of the ‘accusations’ against Vladyslav Afanasiev was of having donated to Ukraine’s Army only exacerbate concerns about such ‘trials’

All Russia's sentences against Crimean Muslims who have committed no crime are savage, but here they have brought insane 'terrorism' charges and are imposing a 17-year sentence against a man who cannot see and needs help to move around

26-year-old Eldar Abduraimov had circulated a video about the ATESH partisan movement which arose in 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russian ‘judge’ Roman Saprunov could not have stated more openly that the sentences against six Crimean Tatar civic activists are predetermined, with fake evidence not a problem

Oleksandr Lytvyenko and Kostiantyn Yevmenenko are among ten victims of just one of countless ‘Crimean saboteur’ cases which Russia’s FSB has been fabricating since 2014

Despite Servet Gaziev’s age (64), recent micro stroke and other serious health issues, Russia is continuing its torment of the Crimean Tatar political prisoner sentenced to 13 years for his defence of other victims of repression

The disappearance of 61-year-old Ediye Muslimova came soon after a sustained attack on another Crimean Tatar publication and after all too many abductions in occupied Crimea, some of the victims of which vanished without trace

“Any person who fails to speak out against this war, who does nothing to stop it, is a passive accomplice to this terrible crime committed by the Russian regime”   Bohdan Ziza in a letter from a Russian prison

The 'trial' and sentence against Dmytro Yezhov is one of a huge number where Ukrainians have been ‘convicted of discrediting’ Russia’s armed forces merely by expressing pro-Ukrainian views

Crimea is Ukraine, the Mejlis stresses, and any territorial concessions to Russia will only whet Moscow’s appetite for more

60-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov should never have been imprisoned, yet even the military court of appeal had earlier been too craven to revoke a politically motivated sentence that could no longer be served

It is typical that the Facebook repost used as pretext for the attack on Rustem Kyamilev and Lilia Hemedzhy, and for terrorizing their children, was in support of Ukrainian political prisoner Oleh Prykhodko