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• Topics / Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
New corrupt players in Russia’s destruction of historic Crimean Tatar Khan’s Palace in occupied Crimea
12.11.2018
The St. Petersburg ’Meander’ company has won a tender for Russia’s so-called ‘restoration work’ of the 16th century Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai, which, under other contractors has already caused irreparable damage to a site of immense importance to Crimean Tatars and Ukraine as a whole
Russia forced to withdraw trumped-up charge against Crimean Tatar activist
08.11.2018
In what is almost a first for Russian-occupied Crimea, one of the criminal charges against Crimean Tatar activist, Ismail Ramazanov has been dropped “for want of a crime”.
Russia escalates attack on human rights lawyers in occupied Crimea
07.11.2018
Russian-controlled enforcement officers burst into the offices of human rights lawyers in occupied Crimea on 6 November, and handed prominent Crimean Tatar lawyer Emil Kurbedinov a ‘warning of the inadmissibility of extremism’
Russia uses Kerch mass killing for hate campaign against Jehovah’s Witnesses
05.11.2018
There seems no end to the uses that Russian state propaganda will make of the tragic mass killing in occupied Kerch on October 17
No end to persecution of Crimean left-wing activist imprisoned for social media posts
02.11.2018
A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in Crimea has refused to release Yevhen Karakashev from custody despite serious health issues and suspect charges over VKontakte social media posts, one of which was in 2014.
Russia uses collaborators for its plans to ‘nationalize’ property of the persecuted Crimean Tatar Mejlis
01.11.2018
The occupation authorities in Crimea appear to be planning to steal the property of the Mejlis, or self-governing body of the Crimean Tatar people, while describing this as ‘nationalization’.
Huge increase in number of political prisoners in Russia & occupied Crimea
31.10.2018
Russia’s renowned Memorial Human Rights Centre has once again marked Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression on 30 October by publishing new lists of political prisoners currently held in Russia or Russian-occupied Crimea.
Russia sends Ukrainians from occupied Crimea to fight in Syria
31.10.2018
Ukrainian human rights groups have submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court of Russia’s war crimes in forcing young Crimeans to serve in the occupying state’s army
After almost 5 years of Russian aggression, Ukraine is still unable to prosecute for war crimes
30.10.2018
Almost five years have passed since Russia launched its military aggression against Ukraine, yet in all that time only one person has been convicted of a war crime. While catching some of the worst war criminals is difficult, the main problem lies in glaring gaps in Ukrainian legislation which the government has been in no hurry to rectify.
Two Muslims get huge prison sentences for teaching their faith in Russian-occupied Crimea
30.10.2018
Akramdzhon Abdullaev and Nematdzhon Isroilov are the latest victims of Russia’s persecution on occupied territory of Muslims for alleged involvement in the peaceful Hizb ut-Tahrir movement which is legal in Ukraine.
Russia launches new attack on Crimean Solidarity & lawyers defending political prisoners
29.10.2018
Russian enforcement officers have carried out a second raid on a meeting of the human rights initiative Crimean Solidarity, with the actions of the masked men this time evidently aimed at instilling fear among all those present. Two Crimean Tatar lawyers were issued ‘warnings’, as was one of the coordinators of Crimean Solidarity
Russia hurls petulant lies as Kremlin hostage Oleg Sentsov awarded Sakharov Prize
26.10.2018
Russia’s ‘terrorist’ narrative about Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov took another blow on 25 October when the Kremlin’s most famous political prisoner was awarded the EU’s prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
Ukrainian political prisoner’s whereabouts unknown after riots in Russian prison
25.10.2018
It is not clear where Dmytro Shtyblikov, the Ukrainian academic accused by Russia of organizing a supposed ‘saboteur plot’ in occupied Crimea, has been taken. It is possible that his transfer is linked with Russia’s latest attempt to carry off a ‘trial’, without a shred of evidence, against two other Ukrainians: Volodymyr Dudka and Oleksiy Bessarabov
Russia uses same methods of persecution against Crimean Muslims and Jehovah’s Witnesses
24.10.2018
The repressive arsenal used by Russia’s FSB in its conveyor belt prosecutions of Ukrainian Muslims in occupied Crimea, as well as in the Russian Federation, is now emerging in the mounting persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Kerch massacre was about militarization of Russian-occupied Crimea & aggression, not ‘globalization’ as Putin claims
19.10.2018
Putin has claimed that the killing at Kerch Technical College of 21 people, most teenagers, was the result of ‘globalization’. It is a convenient line for him to take, but one rejected by those who have long warned of the dangers of rampant militarization and glorification of war in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia stops calling the Kerch mass killing terrorism when it can’t blame Ukraine or Crimean Tatars
18.10.2018
Russia has now decided that the killing of 18 teenagers and teachers in Kerch was multiple homicide, after officials and the media first claimed that Ukraine was behind the ’terrorism’ or that the believed killer “looked like a Tatar”.
Crimean children take oath to serve as friends of the Russian FSB
16.10.2018
Schoolchildren from Russian-occupied Kerch and neighbouring areas have taken part in new ceremonies highlighting the dangerous militarization that Russia has brought to Crimea and its attempts to indoctrinate children and young people
Threats of prosecution to silence protest over new toxic emissions from Crimean Titanium factory
15.10.2018
Amid mounting concern over new toxic emissions from the Crimean Titanium factory in Russian-occupied Armyansk, Kateryna Pyvovar called on other mothers to join her in at the city administration building to demand a meeting with its head, Vasily Telyzhenko. Within a few hours, police had turned up at her door
Russia fights Crimean Solidarity with long prison sentences and shattered childhoods
12.10.2018
Said Asanov had always wanted to be an architect when he grew up. Until October 11, 2017, when his childhood ended with the arrival of masked men brandishing machine guns who took his father away. Now he plans to become a lawyer “to help people and to defend the innocent”
Crimean Tatar political prisoner released under house arrest after likely stroke
11.10.2018
65-year-old Asan Chapukh has finally been released from the notorious Simferopol SIZO [remand prison] although only under house arrest, with symptoms that independent doctors believe indicate a stroke
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