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• Topics / Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia releases Ukrainian abducted & tortured for a ‘confession’ discrediting Crimean Tatar leaders
08.08.2019
The fact that Oleksandr Steshenko was freed suggests that he was only really needed for a televised ‘confession’ which was tortured out of him and gave a wildly implausible story aimed at discrediting the Crimean Tatar Mejlis and its leaders
Russia issues ‘international’ arrest warrant against Crimean Tatar TV ATR journalist
06.08.2019
Two Russian-controlled courts in Crimea have ordered the arrest of Gulsum Khalilova, a young Ukrainian journalist working as a presenter for TV ATR
Crimean Tatar political prisoner prefers imminent death from hunger strike to the slow torture Russia proposes
02.08.2019
The hunger strike and rejection of all medication which Edem Bekirov is planning will certainly kill him, but that death, he believes, will be less painful than Russia’s new plans for the imprisoned Crimean Tatar activist who has only one leg and a number of potentially life-threatening illnesses
10 minutes per ‘trial’ in Russia’s conveyor belt of repression against Crimean Tatars
30.07.2019
A Russian court on 29 July imposed fines on the first 18 of 46 Crimean Tatar activists detained in Moscow while standing outside the Supreme Court in solidarity with four Crimean Tatar political prisoners given huge sentences for no crime at all
Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in occupied Crimea plundered and destroyed
25.07.2019
Less than a month after the Russian occupation regime seized the main premises of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Crimea, the inside of the building has been devastated and all Church items simply stolen
Gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner in acute pain and unable to stand
23.07.2019
58-year-old amputee Edem Bekirov, who is already suffering from illnesses that should preclude detention, is in acute pain from a pinched spinal nerve and cannot move
FSB confirm that Crimean Tatar civic journalist was arrested for reporting on political trials in Russian-occupied Crimea
22.07.2019
Two FSB officers from Russian-occupied Crimea have given testimony in the trial of Nariman Memedeminov that makes it quite clear that the civic journalist and Crimean Solidarity activist was arrested because of his reports from court hearings in politically motivated cases.
Ukrainian sentenced for an ‘anti-Russian’ Facebook post describes atmosphere of fear in occupied Crimea
19.07.2019
Larisa Kitaiska is safely back in Kyiv, after a trip to her native Yalta in July 2016 resulted in her arrest by the Russian occupation authorities for supposedly ‘anti-Russian’ material on Facebook
Russia prosecutes for mentioning the Mejlis, but not for hate speech against Crimean Tatars
16.07.2019
Russian occupiers are happy for texts to incite hatred about the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people or the Jehovah’s Witnesses with prosecutions only where the authors don’t mention Russia’s extraordinary bans on them
Mass arrests as Russian ‘court’ confirms horrific sentences against 4 Crimean Tatar political prisoners
12.07.2019
In yet another eerie echo from the Soviet past, around 50 Crimean Tatar activists were detained on 11 July in Moscow. as they stood outside Russia’s Supreme Court, peacefully demonstrating their support for four Crimean Tatar political prisoners sentenced to huge terms of imprisonment
Bitter déjà vu: Crimean Tatars arrested on Red Square for defending victims of repression
11.07.2019
Seven Crimean Tatar, many of them veterans of the Crimean Tatar national movement, were detained in Moscow on 10 July while holding a totally peaceful picket calling for an end to ethnic and religious persecution in Russian-occupied Crimea
Tortured Ukrainian political prisoner looks years older, yet remains unbroken
09.07.2019
Yevhen Panov is only 42, but he looks ten years older after the torture he was subjected to and almost three years in Russian captivity.
Help stop Russia from killing Crimean Tatar political prisoner Edem Bekirov!
08.07.2019
Lawyers representing imprisoned Crimean Tatar activist Edem Bekirov have approached the European Court of Human Rights, requesting that it force Russia to comply with its order and hospitalize Bekirov. In the meantime, a Russian doctor has launched a petition demanding what Russian law itself demands, that the authorities stop putting the 58-year-old amputee’s life in danger
Crimean Tatar detained for innocuous social media post from before Russia annexed Crimea
03.07.2019
A week after the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe effectively removed sanctions against Russia, purportedly to enable ‘dialogue’, Russia is openly refusing to obey an order from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to release 24 imprisoned seamen and is continuing its terror tactics against Crimean Tatars, demonstrating its usual contempt for both ‘dialogue’ and fundamental principles of law.
Russia ordered to pay Ukrainian journalist forced to flee Crimea huge damages
02.07.2019
The award in moral compensation to Anna Andriyevska and simple court rulings could hurt Russia as the money is to be obtained by arresting Russian assets in Ukraine – and eventually abroad
Russia seizes main Cathedral and centre of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in occupied Crimea
01.07.2019
The Russian occupation regime in Crimea has made its plundering of the main Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Crimea ‘official’
Balukh is refusing food or water in protest at relentless reprisals in Russian prison
29.06.2019
The Ukrainian political prisoner, jailed by Russia for the Ukrainian flag he refused to renounce, is virtually permanently being held in a cold and dark punishment cell without warm clothing, and with even his psalm book having been taken from him. >
Russian occupiers warn against using an‘extremist symbol’ on Crimean Tatar Flag Day
27.06.2019
While Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians throughout the world were taking part in events and flashmobs to celebrate Crimean Tatar Flag day, the Russian occupation regime issued ‘warnings’, claiming that the Crimean Tatar flag was an ‘extremist’ symbol
Russia refuses to free 24 Ukrainian POWS despite an International Tribunal order it must obey
26.06.2019
A month after Russia was ordered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea [ITLOS] to release 24 Ukrainian servicemen it is holding prisoner
Russia adds 4 politicians under EU sanctions to its first ‘delegation’ if Council of Europe gives in to blackmail
24.06.2019
Four of the 18 members of the ‘delegation’ which Russia is hoping will be ‘triumphantly reinstated’ in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] on 24 June are under personal sanctions for their role in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine
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