When prevented from flooding the event with propaganda, Russia simply blocked this vital platform for NGOs to provide information about mounting human rights violations in occupied Crimea, Donbas and other places

Russia’s case against Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, is full of bloopers; the FSB’s story is teeming with discrepancies and the attempt to link the journalist with Ukraine’s SBU [Security Service] has collapsed - lawyer Dmitry Dinze

The court chooses not to see the dodgy nature of an unqualified ‘expert assessment’ and testimony’ of two secret witnesses, one of whom faces prison in Latvia if he refuses to collaborate with the FSB

Halyna Dovhopola has been able to pass a letter to Graty journalists in which the 66-year-old Crimean pensioner describes how she was seized by FSB officers in November 2019 and the torment she has since endured

Russia’s FSB has published a list of 60 topics that could result in journalists and others finding themselves labelled ‘foreign agents’ and prosecuted despite receiving no funding from abroad

The FSB’s ‘religious expert’ clearly has no idea of the names of the prophets, religious figures, etc. – just what the FSB want him to say to get men imprisoned for 20 years

Sokhiba Burkhanova has been imprisoned since the day after her refugee husband was killed by FSB officers in occupied Crimea

Russia’s FSB have based the ‘terrorism’ charges laid against Oleh Fedorov* and Ernest Ibragimov on discussions of religious themes although the conversations were illicitly taped back in 2016 and January 2017.

At least ten Crimean Tatar political prisoners, including human rights defender Emir-Usein Kuku, have been placed on so-called prophylactic registers, as inclined to ‘extremism’; to ‘attacks on prison staff’ and even to ‘escape attempts’. 

Russia’s FSB have substantially increased the charges against Nariman Dzhelyal which they brought shortly after the Deputy Chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis took part in Ukraine’s Crimea Platform

Serhiy Lyulin, a Jehovah's Witness from Yalta, is facing a 10 year sentence after being seized, while in Russia, thrown into the boot of a minivan and driven, in handcuffs and bound with scotch tape, for 16 hours to occupied Simferopol

FSB ‘investigator’ Vitaly Vlasov has used torture to fabricate the prosecutions of Nariman Dzhelyal, Asan Akhtemov and journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, while he also takes part in the persecution of Crimean Tatar activists and Jehovah’s Witnesses

The charges and monstrous sentence against Ivan Yatskin are almost certainly because of his pro-Ukrainian position in Crimea which Russia is illegally occupying

Both Asan and Aziz Akhtemov have retracted their videoed ‘confessions’ and have given details of the torture and threats, including to Asan’s wife, that their Russian FSB captors used to obtain them

58-year-old Azamat Eyupov is facing a 15-20-year sentence without any crime, on the basis of planted ‘prohibited literature’ and a taped conversation although the voice on the tape is not his.

As well as staging a hunt for fictitious ‘saboteurs’, the FSB also claim to be looking for the ‘organizers’ of the spontaneous gathering of relatives and others trying to find out the whereabouts of Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Nariman Dzhelyal and 4 other apparently abducted men

Russia’s FSB has accused Ukraine’s Military Intelligence and the Crimean Tatar Mejlis with the ‘evidence’ for this in the form of two videoed ‘confessions’ given by men held incommunicado and prevented from seeing their lawyers for over three days

The sharp escalation in repression from 3 to 5 September, and arrest of Nariman Dzhelyal, clearly demonstrate that nobody can feel safe in Russian-occupied Crimea

During the latest hearing in the internationally condemned trial in Russian-occupied Crimea of Vladislav Yesypenko, an FSB officer claimed that they released the Ukrainian freelance journalist after detaining and then questioning him

Russia’s FSB has concocted grotesque ‘sabotage’ charges against Nariman Dzhelyal, First Deputy Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, and a politician, teacher and journalist held in high regard both in Ukraine and abroad.