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• Topics / Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia demands 12-year sentence against Crimean Tatar scholar for studying religion
02.02.2022
The same prosecutor who sought an 11-year effective death sentence against Oleh Prykhodko for his open opposition to Russia’s annexation of Crimea has demanded a 12-year sentence against Crimean Tatar Arabic scholar and civic activist, Vadim Bektemirov.
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.
Czech court to decide if armed Russian paramilitary awarded for his role in the invasion of Crimea is extradited to Ukraine
31.01.2022
The Prague Municipal Court is due to decide in the middle of February whether Aleksandr Franchetti is to be extradited to Ukraine to face trial for his active role in Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea
61-year-old Ukrainian tortured, then sentenced to 12 years in Russian captivity for ‘spying’
28.01.2022
A court in Sochi has upheld the 12-year sentence passed, behind closed doors, by a Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea against 61-year-old Ukrainian Kostiantyn Shyrinh
Crucial law adopted to help Russia’s Ukrainian political prisoners and hostages
27.01.2022
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has finally adopted a long-needed bill that will provide social and legal aid to around 400 political prisoners, hostages and prisoners of war, held in captivity in Russia or occupied Crimea and Donbas, and their families
Russia challenges compensation awarded former Crimean Tatar political prisoner for torture-like imprisonment
26.01.2022
Russia’s Penitentiary Service has challenged a crucial ruling that awarded 64-year-old Kazim Ametov compensation for the inhuman conditions he was held prisoner in for over two years
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.
Russia wants to jail world-renowned Crimean Tatar leader for 20 years on the basis of three 'secret witnesses'
21.01.2022
The only ‘evidence’ for the grotesque ‘sabotage’ claims against Crimean Tatar journalist and public figure, Nariman Dzhelyal and two cousins, Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, has come from three secret ‘witnesses’ probably tortured into providing such 'testimony'
“They’re killing my father!” Daughter of 63-year-old Ukrainian imprisoned for opposing Russian occupation of Crimea
20.01.2022
Oleh Prykhodko’s wife and daughter were allowed a three-hour meeting with the Ukrainian political prisoner on 18 January, and report that the 63-year-old is in a terrible state after torture and ill-treatment in Russian captivity
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
Russia's trial in revenge for Crimean Tatar resistance provided vital proof for international courts about its invasion
17.01.2022
Russia’s trial of Akhtem Chiygoz was planned as a triumphant victory over all Ukrainian resistance to its occupation of Crimea. It went badly wrong and, instead, exposed the methods Moscow used to try to mask its land-grab
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
Ukrainians in imminent danger of losing their land and homes in Russian-occupied Crimea
10.01.2022
Around six and a half thousand pieces of land in occupied Crimea could be forcibly sold in the near future, with the Ukrainian owners of most of them treated as ‘foreign nationals’ by the illegal Russian occupation regime
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
Courageous testimony exposes the torture and threats used to fabricate Russia’s ‘trial’ of Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyal
05.01.2022
Kurtumer Chalgozov, the 23-year-old Crimean Tatar seized by FSB officers on 14 December, has publicly revealed details about his treatment that day and the methods used to get him to sign an agreement to collaborate with the FSB
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’.
Russia equates defending political prisoners to ‘justifying terrorism’ in ban on Memorial Human Rights Centre
30.12.2021
Memorial HRC has played a huge role in monitoring Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea, and the excuses given for demanding its closure may well augur a new escalation in political persecution.
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
Attack on major human rights watchdog augurs new weapon of repression in Russian-occupied Crimea
28.12.2021
Russia’s effective state censor Roskomnadzor has blocked OVD-Info, the largest independent human rights website monitoring and reporting on political persecution in Russia and occupied Crimea
Crimean Tatar told “here you have no rights” before FSB electric shock torture
24.12.2021
Four days after Nariman Ametov was taken from his home in handcuffs and with a bag over his head, the young Crimean Tatar father has publicly spoken of the torture he endured during the following hours
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