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• Topics / Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Two Ukrainians get 14-year sentences for refusing to cooperate with Russian FSB
05.04.2019
Oleksiy Bessarabov and Volodymyr Dudka have been sentenced by a Russian-controlled Sevastopol court to 14 years’ imprisonment on entirely fabricated ‘sabotage’ charges
Russia seizes Ukrainian Church land in Crimea for the FSB and Moscow Patriarchate
05.04.2019
The Russian occupation regime has begun construction work on land allocated to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church back in 2012 for a new Christ the Saviour Cathedral
Russia applies punitive psychiatry against the 24 Ukrainian POWs seized after Sea of Azov aggression
04.04.2019
At least four of the 24 Ukrainian prisoners of war whom Russia seized on 25 November 2018 have been taken to the Serbsky Institute for supposed psychiatric assessment. All the men are likely to be subjected to what, in the given situation, amounts to punitive psychiatry
15-year sentences demanded for Ukrainians accused of invented ‘Crimean sabotage’ plot
03.04.2019
The ‘prosecutor’ in Russian-occupied Sevastopol has demanded 15-year sentences for retired Ukrainian navy captain, Volodymyr Dudka, and Oleksiy Bessarabov, an academic, despite acknowledging that the FSB falsified ‘evidence’ in the case.
First Ukrainian political prisoner seized within days of Russia’s invasion of Crimea
02.04.2019
Russia had seized its first Ukrainian political prisoner even before completing its illegal annexation. Mykola Shyptur has now been imprisoned for over five years serving a 9-year sentence on a surreal charge of attempting to murder men who were trying to abduct, and probably kill, him
23 arrested Crimean Tatar rights activists secretly moved to Russia
01.04.2019
Russia has illegally taken the 23 Crimean Solidarity activists arrested on 27 and 28 March from occupied Crimea, without giving the men a chance to even contact their families
Where Ukraine’s presidential candidates Poroshenko and Zelensky (don’t) stand on Crimea and Donbas
01.04.2019
While the issue of Russia’s occupation of Crimea may not be a vote-winner, and Volodymyr Zelensky is not alone in having no idea how to return Crimea, there are questions which the two likely presidential candidates in the second round must be willing to confront.
Russia uses terror to crush Crimean Solidarity & drive Crimean Tatars from their homeland
29.03.2019
Russia has unleashed a new wave of terror on occupied Crimea, with the aim very clearly being to intimidate Crimean Tatars into silence or drive them, on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the 1944 Deportation, from their homeland.
New arrests add 55 children to the victims of Russia’s war against Crimean Tatars
28.03.2019
No child can be prepared for the trauma of seeing masked men waving machine guns burst into their home and force their father to the ground. That was the experience for 55 children on 27 March, many of whom watched in terror as the men took their fathers away in handcuffs
Mass armed searches and arrests of Crimean Tatar activists in Russian-occupied Crimea
28.03.2019
20 men are now in custody, with that number set to rise, after the latest and most flagrant, of a series of attacks on Crimean Solidarity clearly aimed at intimidating Crimean Tatars and forcing them into silence about the mounting repression under Russian occupation
Crimean journalist arrested hours after saying that Crimea needs to be saved from Russia
27.03.2019
The formerly pro-Russian journalist Yevhen Haivoronsky was detained on 26 March, just hours after giving the latest of several interviews recently in which he has fiercely criticized the Russian authorities and expressed support for Ukraine.
Russia has eliminated all classes taught in Ukrainian since its annexation of Crimea
27.03.2019
Almost two years after the UN’s International Court of Justice ordered Russia to “ensure the availability of education in the Ukrainian language” in occupied Crimea, there is not one school teaching all subjects in Ukrainian
Russian court helps FSB fake testimony against imprisoned Crimean anarchist
25.03.2019
There are also strong grounds for believing that the Russian prosecution’s main witness against Crimean political prisoner Yevhen Karakashev is giving testimony under duress
Russian Defence Ministry wants a million children in ‘Youth Army’ by 2020
22.03.2019
Russia’s Defence Ministry is reportedly seeking the creation of ‘Yunarmia’ [‘Youth Army’] units at all defence industry enterprises in its drive to get one million children and young people ‘enlisted’ by 2020 in a structure that has been compared to the Nazi Hitlerjugend
Armed searches and arrests of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea
21.03.2019
Russia’s FSB have brought more persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses to occupied Crimea with at least six armed searches on 20 March and subsequent detention
Crimean Tatar civic journalist faces 7-year sentence for reporting rights abuses in occupied Crimea
20.03.2019
It is dangerous in Russian-occupied Crimea to write the truth, especially about political persecution and other rights violations. Nariman Memedeminov has already spent a year in detention for his civic journalism and active role in the Crimean Solidarity civic initiative, and is now being deprived of an urgently-needed medical operation.
Siemens collaboration with Russia helps Putin to further militarize Crimea
19.03.2019
Mustafa Dzhemilev is convinced that Putin knows that Russia’s annexation of Crimea was a bad mistake. For the moment, however, he’s still on propaganda drives with the one for the fifth anniversary, unfortunately, aided by Germany’s Siemens
Russian occupiers are doing everything to kill imprisoned Crimean Tatar amputee
19.03.2019
As if it were not enough to effectively abduct and imprison Edem Bekirov on charges which his disability and serious illnesses make simply preposterous, Russia is now placing the 58-year-old Crimean Tatar’s life in danger through inappropriate medication and 24-hour incarceration in appalling conditions
Russia State Duma Speaker demands compensation from Ukraine for ‘annexing’ Crimea
18.03.2019
Five years after Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, Russian State Duma Speaker Viacheslav Volodin has claimed it was Ukraine that annexed Crimea and should pay ‘compensation’
‘Closed for Destruction’: Russia is digging up 16th Century Crimean Tatar Khan’s Palace
15.03.2019
Video footage has shown new details of Russia’s wanton destruction of the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai, with ordinary workers carrying out ‘excavation’ work, without any attempt to record and preserve artefacts found
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