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• Topics / Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Prosecution witness testifies for the defence in Russia’s latest ‘Crimea sabotage trial’
07.08.2018
The ‘trial’ has begun in Russian occupied Crimea of an academic and former naval captain whom Russia has accused, without a scrap of evidence, of planning acts of sabotage on instructions from Ukraine’s military intelligence
Ukrainian political prisoner freed after Russia takes full revenge for Maidan
06.08.2018
Oleksandr Kostenko has been released from a Russian prison after being forced to serve a legally absurd sentence to the end. He is one of two Ukrainians, together with Andriy Kolomiyets, sentenced under Russian legislation on charges related to Euromaidan in Ukraine, over which Russia can have no jurisdiction.
Russia brings in Putin’s ‘National Guard’ ‘to prevent sabotage’ or crush protest in occupied Crimea
03.08.2018
Bases are to be set up for Putin’s National Guard [Rosgvardia] in three cities in occupied Crimea. The official line is that this is needed to protect Russia’s illegal Crimea Bridge from ‘Ukrainian saboteurs’. Many suspect, however, that the real aim is to have this army of specially trained fighters on hand to crush any protests
Crimean Tatar woman charged with ‘inciting hatred towards Russians’ over 4-year-old social media reposts
02.08.2018
Russian enforcement officers came for Elina Mamedova between three and four years after she reposted some material from a pro-Ukrainian page on the VKontakte social network. There were three reposts from 2014/2015, with no added comments, yet the young Crimean woman is now facing criminal charges of ‘inciting hatred towards Russians’
Another Ukrainian tortured for Russian TV ‘confession’ jailed on different charges
31.07.2018
Another supposed ‘Crimean saboteur’, Hliv Shabliy, whose ‘confession’ was widely shown on Russian television, has been declared a political prisoner bafter a trial and conviction that bore no relation to his confession
Crimean Tatar political prisoner threatened with more charges for not helping the FSB persecute others
30.07.2018
Ruslan Zeytullaev has once again demonstrated the courage he showed during Russia’s fabricated ‘trial’ of him and three other Crimean Muslims by refusing to give testimony against one of the latest Crimean political prisoners, despite threats of further criminal charges
Ukraine to provide support to families of political prisoners held in Russia and Crimea
27.07.2018
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has finally adopted a resolution which will help the families of Russia’s Ukrainian political prisoners pay for lawyers, as well as visits where the men are held somewhere in Russia. Although there may be issues to be clarified, this is undoubtedly a much needed move
Russia tackled at the UN over torture in occupied Crimea
26.07.2018
Russia’s presentation of its 6th Periodic Report to the UN Committee against Torture is taking place this year with the enforced involvement of Ukrainian human rights NGOs, who have presented a devastating ‘alternative report’ on Russia’s use of torture in occupied Crimea.
Ukrainian gets double sentence for ‘hostility to Russia’ over annexation of Crimea
25.07.2018
A court in Russian-occupied Crimea has upheld a shockingly high 8-year sentence on Hennady Lymeshko, a young father from the Kharkiv oblast and one of the ever-increasing number of Ukrainians whom Russia’s FSB forces to ‘confess’ on camera to supposed ‘sabotage plots’.
‘Preliminary’ terrorization of civic activists and lawyers in occupied Crimea
24.07.2018
Gulsum Alieva is the latest of a number of Crimean civic activists and lawyers who are facing so-called ‘pre-criminal investigation checks, aimed at silencing dissident voices in occupied Crimea or forcing those targeted into exile
Crimean Tatar, jailed on fake extremism charges, refuses to be cowered into silence
20.07.2018
Ismail Ramazanov has lodged a formal complaint accusing an investigator from the Russian Investigative Committee of falsifying the evidence in his case, an act of considerable courage in Russian-occupied Crimea
They terrorize children in Russian-occupied Crimea & then they come to do it again
19.07.2018
As feared, it has taken Russia just three days after the end of the World Cup to again revert to political repression in occupied Crimea with the target this time a young woman who has had a serious medical condition since childhood
With Trump on his side, Putin admits Russia staged the ‘referendum’ to annex Crimea
17.07.2018
Vladimir Putin was clearly feeling emboldened by the coup that US President Trump gave him through the 16 July summit, and did not even bother to hide behind his customary subterfuge about Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea
Flats for Treason in Russian-occupied Crimea
16.07.2018
Anybody wondering how repressive regimes find the ‘judges’, ‘prosecutors’ and ‘police’ needed for politically-motivated arrests and trials, should look to Crimea under Russian occupation. Although Moscow sent in Viktor Palagin and other Russians with a track record in repression to take up top posts in the FSB [security service], it also applied various ‘incentives’ to encourage Crimeans to switch allegiance. One of the most corrupting of such incentives is housing.
Defiant cries of ‘Glory to Ukraine!’ as Russia sentences Panov to 8 years for exposing ‘Crimean saboteur’ scam
13.07.2018
Yevhen Panov has been sentenced to eight years in Russian-occupied Crimea on ‘sabotage’ charges for which there is not a scrap of evidence. The sentence was met with cries of “Glory to Ukraine” from Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian activists who had come to show support, an act of no small courage under Russian occupation
Oleg Sentsov’s Last Birthday in Russian captivity and 61st day on hunger strike
13.07.2018
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov is turning 42 on 13 July. It will be his fourth birthday in a Russian prison, and must be his last. The Kremlin’s most famous Ukrainian hostage has been on hunger strike since 14 May and has made it clear that he will not give up until Russia releases him and other Ukrainian political prisoners
Russia hides imprisoned Ukrainian human rights activist on hunger strike
11.07.2018
Ukrainian political prisoner Emir-Usein Kuku “has been returned” to the Russian prison from where he disappeared on the morning of 10 July. It is possible that the secrecy about Kuku’s whereabouts was to prevent his lawyer from seeing the human rights activist who has been on hunger strike since 26 June
10-year sentence demanded in FSB’s fantasy ‘Ukrainian Crimea sabotage’ plot
10.07.2018
The de facto prosecutor in Russian-occupied Crimea has demanded that Yevhen Panov be sentenced to ten and a half years’ imprisonment despite the lack of any evidence that there ever was a Crimean saboteur plot which he is supposed to have organized
If Putin admitted Crimea is Ukraine, why would Trump recognize illegal Russian annexation?
10.07.2018
The Kremlin’s assertion that Crimea will not be on the agenda during Vladimir Putin’s meeting with US President Donald Trump might be cheering given Trump’s apparent refusal to rule out ‘recognizing Crimea as Russian’, if it could be believed. It cannot, and not least because of the number of times Putin has said something quite different.
Criminal charges against Crimean Tatar who refused to be silent about savage FSB torture
09.07.2018
The de facto military prosecutor in Russian-occupied Crimea has refused to initiate criminal proceedings against the FSB officers who abducted and tortured 31-year-old Crimean Tatar Rinat Paralamov. Two criminal investigations have, however, been launched against the victim who refused to remain silent about the FSB’s treatment of him
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