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• Topics / Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia brings grotesque new charges against Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Nariman Dzhelyal
16.11.2021
Nariman Dzhelyal has explained very movingly why he had no choice but to return to occupied Crimea, even knowing the likely revenge for his involvement in the international Crimea Platform
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 lawyer jailed and fined for defending client and refusing to strip naked
12.11.2021
Edem Semedlyaev was also fined four thousand roubles for disobeying the officer who illegally ordered the lawyer to strip naked
Russia moves to dissolve Memorial NGOs that defend political prisoners and expose Russian aggression against Ukraine
12.11.2021
The forced dissolution of the Memorial Human Rights Centre, in particular, would be catastrophic given the crucial role the NGO plays in monitoring political and religious persecution both in Russia and in occupied Crimea
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
Russia wanted a new ‘Crimean saboteur trial’, so they looked around for three Ukrainians
09.11.2021
Exactly five years ago, on 9 November 2016, Russia’s FSB arrested two internationally known Ukrainian academics, Dmytro Shtyblikov and Oleksiy Bessarabov, and Volodymyr Dudka, a retired naval captain
Ukrainian political prisoner in danger of losing both legs in Russian captivity
08.11.2021
Russia has deprived Ivan Yatskin of his liberty, and now appears intent on leaving him crippled
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.
Mass detentions as Russia upholds huge sentences against three Crimean Tatar political prisoners
02.11.2021
Even Russia's repressive legislation does not prohibit people from trying to attend open court hearings. Unless they are Crimean Tatars and the hearing is on political prisoners, in which case they can now expect to be detained and, at very least, fined.
Effective death sentence against Crimean Tatar civic journalist reporting on repression in Russian-occupied Crimea
01.11.2021
The ‘judges’ who sentenced Amet Suleimanov to 12 years’ harsh regime imprisonment on 29 October are well aware that the first months would likely kill him. They are doubtless equally aware why the civic journalist was targeted
Russian activist faces ‘terrorism’ charges for defending Crimean Tatar political prisoners
01.11.2021
Olga Smirnova, a political activist from St. Petersburg, has been charged with ‘justifying terrorism’ over a picket in defence of four recognized Crimean Tatar political prisoners from Alusht
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 excludes Ukrainian from the census it is illegally holding in occupied Crimea
28.10.2021
While constantly demanding official status for the Russian language in Ukraine and claiming that Russian speakers face ‘discrimination’, Russia has not included Ukrainian in the list of languages which can be used in completing its 2021 census
Mass detentions and fines for trying to attend a political trial in Russian-occupied Crimea
27.10.2021
‘Judges’ in Russian-occupied Crimea spent 26 October imposing a huge number of fines for entirely fabricated ‘infringements’ by Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists, as well as by the lawyer who had arrived to represent them
Lawyer detained in Russian-occupied Crimea and ordered to strip naked
26.10.2021
Edem Semedlyaev, one of the lawyers tirelessly defending victims of repression in occupied Crimea, was detained on 25 October and remains in custody on frighteningly lawless charges
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
Indefinite ‘quarantine cell’ used against Crimean Tatar who exposed Russian FSB torture
22.10.2021
Russia’s imprisonment of Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Nariman Dzhelyal, Asan Akhtemov and his cousin Aziz seems all about revenge with this doubtless one of the reasons for isolating Asan and half-starving him
2 years for setting a person alight, while Russia demands 20-year sentences against Crimean Tatars for discussing their faith
21.10.2021
Russia has set a new shocking record in sentences demanded without any crime except civic activism, and has done so a day after a person received an absurdly low sentence for trying to set his partner alight
400 Ukrainians imprisoned without a crime in Russia, occupied Crimea and Donbas
20.10.2021
Draft bills now in parliament will finally provide real help and guarantees for political prisoners, POWs and civilian hostages and their families
Russia vandalizes and plunders UNESCO World Heritage site at Chersonese in occupied Crimea
19.10.2021
Russia’s illegal construction plans for the ancient ruins of Tauric Chersonese in occupied Crimea will cause enormous damage and are very likely to lead to Chersonese being removed from UNESCO’s World Heritage List
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