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• Topics / Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia breaks all records in Crimea with level of persecution of 8 Crimean Tatars
15.03.2019
The FSB have suddenly changed the indictment against more Crimean Tatar political prisoners arrested for their faith and involvement in the Crimean Solidarity civic initiative
In an important first, UN spells out that Russia is holding 24 Ukrainian Prisoners of War
13.03.2019
In its first quarterly report since Russia’s attack on three Ukrainian naval ships near Crimea, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has clearly stated that Russia is in breach of international humanitarian law and that the 24 Ukrainians seized on 25 November 2018 are prisoners of war
At least 52 Crimeans prosecuted for refusing to serve in Russian occupiers’ army
11.03.2019
There can be many reasons why individual Crimeans have sought to avoid Russian military service. In all cases, however, it is Russia that is violating international law by forcing young men to serve in an occupying army
Russia holds 100 Ukrainian political prisoners & POWs, but accuses Ukraine of persecuting Crimeans
08.03.2019
Russia’s Human Rights Ombudsperson’s complaint that Ukraine is persecuting Crimeans comes as around 80 Ukrainians are illegally deprived of their liberty in occupied Crimea or Russia, as well as 24 POWs Unlike Moskalkova, we can name the victims of persecution
New persecution in occupied Crimea inevitable after Russia allows imprisonment for “disrespect for the authorities”
08.03.2019
Russia has taken another dangerous step towards stifling criticism of those in power and inconvenient information, with this having major ramifications for Crimea while under occupation
Still only ‘pinprick sanctions’ 100 days after Russia’s Azov Sea attack & seizure of 24 Ukrainian POWs
05.03.2019
Russia’s attack on Ukrainian naval vessels and seizure of 24 POWs were condemned by the international community but the sanctions thus far have been “like a pinprick to an elephant”, according to Nikolai Polozov, the coordinator of the lawyers representing the 24 Ukrainians
Ukrainian Archbishop Klyment detained in Russian-occupied Crimea on grotesquely absurd charges
04.03.2019
Archbishop Klyment, Head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Russian-occupied Crimea was detained on Sunday morning, 3 March, and held in custody till late evening, facing two separate charges of breath-taking cynicism
Reshat Ametov, and the torture and killings with impunity that Russia brought to Crimea
03.03.2019
It is five years since 39-year-old Reshat Ametov was abducted while standing in silent protest against Russia’s invasion of his homeland and tortured to death. His was not the only abduction by the armed paramilitaries whom Russia let leash on Crimea, with none having ever been properly investigated
Soldier who betrayed Ukraine sentenced to 10 years in Russia for ‘treason’
01.03.2019
Dmitry Dolgopolov and his common-law wife Anna Sukhonosova were accused of having gathered secret information for Ukraine’s Military Intelligence, and sentenced to 10 and 9 years, respectively
Russia brings charges of ‘planning to violently seize power’ for Crimean Solidarity with political prisoners
28.02.2019
There are grounds for suspecting that the added charge of ‘planning to violently seize power’ is punishment for refusal to ‘cooperate’ with the investigators.
Uncomfortable human rights questions silenced on anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea
27.02.2019
Two Ukrainian human rights activists scheduled to speak at a high-level event marking five years of Russia’s occupation of Crimea were removed from the agenda after they sent details of their speeches
Glazyev tapes debunk Russia’s lies about its annexation of Crimea and undeclared war against Ukraine
26.02.2019
Although the international community has remained united in refusing to recognize Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian Crimea five years ago, it has been disturbingly willing to accept Russia’s narrative about the supposed mass support in Crimea for this move
Children taught how to hunt ‘the enemy’ and disperse protests in Russia and occupied Crimea
25.02.2019
In a recent ‘military game’ in occupied Crimea, Russia’s Defence Ministry had children pretending to be military intelligence agents and gathering information about ‘the enemy’
Crimean left-wing activist arrested, drugged and charged with ‘extremism’
25.02.2019
Valery Bolshakov asserts that he began facing persecution after a single-person picket against the Russian authorities
Russia issues arrest warrant against Crimean Tatar activist for calls to #LiberateCrimea
22.02.2019
Five years after invading and annexing Eskender Bariev’s homeland, Russia wants to imprison Bariev for objecting, which it refers to as making ‘public calls aimed at violating Russia’s territorial integrity’.
Russia moves political prisoner Balukh from Crimea in new revenge for Ukrainian Flag
21.02.2019
Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Balukh has been moved from a Crimean prison to Russia, with the gruelling journey to Russian Krasnodar likely to be dragged out for up to a month
Russia claims “more freedom of speech in Crimea than in Europe”, while silencing another Ukrainian journalist
20.02.2019
Three days after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov publicly claimed that anybody can come to Crimea and see that there are no violations of human rights, Russia banned another Ukrainian journalist from Crimea for reporting on political prisoners
Russia repeats lies about Crimean Tatars used by Stalin to justify the Deportation in school history textbook
18.02.2019
Over 50 years after the Soviet Union formally refuted the lies about Crimean Tatars that Joseph Stalin used to justify the 1944 Deportation, Russia has reinstated them in a school history textbook + Update
Russian could face terrorism charges for defending Ukrainian political prisoner Oleg Sentsov
18.02.2019
Since the internationally condemned charges concocted against Sentsov and three other Ukrainians were of ‘terrorism’, Viktor Kotov, a municipal council deputy and activist, could face criminal prosecution for supposed ‘justification of terrorism’.
Russia brings terror to more Crimean Tatar families
15.02.2019
After the latest armed searches and arrests in Russian-occupied Crimea, three more Crimean Tatars have joined Russia’s long list of Ukrainian political prisoners and five children have been left without their fathers, bringing the number of Russia’s smallest Crimean victims to well over 100
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