It is likely that 45-year-old Anatoliy Kobzar was targeted because of his pro-Ukrainian views, with the FSB holding him incommunicado and probably tortured while they fabricate charges

Both Khalil Mambetov and his wife had serious health issues even before Russia's FSB ignored his age and charged him with 'violently planning to overthrow the regime with words and books

"The real terrorists are those who burst into the homes of people peacefully sleeping, who intimidate people who tell the truth; and who imprison people for their political and religious views.” - Vadim Siruk

The fact that the FSB concealed the whereabouts of Tetiana Maliar, her brother and adult son and daughter for a week after they were taken away is likely to mean that they were subjected to torture

30-year-old Vladyslav Afanasiev has been denied contact with his family and healthcare since his ‘arrest’ in the summer of 2024 on surreal ‘treason’ charges

It is very likely that Russia’s FSB came for Halyna because she had never concealed her opposition to Russia’s invasion of Crimea

The indictment seems copied verbatim from other such fabricated ‘trials’ of Ukrainians, but this time Russia is planning to imprison Nina Tymoshenko until she is 82

Russia’s action in razing Rustem Useinov’s home to the ground was described in 2021 as a war crime. Now the same occupiers have taken away the 70-year-old’s trailer, his medicines and other items

The Trump administration appears bent on silencing Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, something Moscow tried but failed to achieve and that will only help escalate its repression and crimes in occupied Ukraine

Yunus Masharipov was almost certainly targeted and tortured back in 2018 by Russia’s FSB for his human rights monitoring in occupied Yalta. His unwavering demand for justice has resulted in indefinite imprisonment in a ‘psychiatric hospital’

Russia’s persecution of four members of one family, as well as of a gravely ill civic journalist is chillingly reminiscent of the methods of terror use by Stalin’s regime against the three brothers’ great-grandfather

Russia has been systematically, perhaps deliberately, destroying a monument which, before Russia’s invasion of Crimea, was on UNESCO’s list of potential World Heritage sites

With impunity guaranteed for the Russian regime’s FSB and ‘courts’, no effort is made to present plausible charges to justify horrifically long sentences

While officially claiming that Crimeans are united behind Russia’s full-scale invasion, Valeriy Shevchuk is only the latest of very many Crimeans to face imprisonment or fines for supporting Ukraine

Crimean Tatars prevented Moscow from staging a coup without open invasion 11 years ago and have faced savage repression ever since. Acceptance of Russia’s occupation of any part of Ukraine would be a betrayal and dangerous

The only likely reason for holding Ruslan Mambetov incommunicado for over a month is that the FSB wanted to extract 'confessions' through torture in order to concoct yet another such 'treason' trial

The gratuitously violent armed raids on 11 February 2016 prompted the emergence of the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement whose members Russia has been savagely persecuting ever since

Roman Hryhorian is one of a mounting number of Ukrainians seized on occupied territory and charged with ‘treason’ for seeking to help Ukraine’s Armed Forces defend their country

Volodymyr Ananiev, who spent years helping Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians in Crimea is now Russia’s oldest Ukrainian political prisoner and one of three victims of the latest FSB-fabricated ‘Ukrainian saboteur plot’

The FSB prefer to get their ‘statistics’ by fighting whole families. First they came for Emir Kurtnezirov’s severely ill father, then for him, less than two months after he married the daughter and niece of four other Crimean Tatar political prisoners