Russia’s attack on the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement was also an attack on one family, whose elderly parents have now lost all their sons, some 80 years after Stalin’s regime came for their great grandfather

While Russia’s effective information blockade means there is little information about 47-year-old Ihor Kopyl, there are all too many echoes from the charges used to imprison numerous Ukrainian political prisoners

Serhiy Parfenovych and Yury Heraschenko have become the latest in a very large number of Ukrainians imprisoned by the aggressor state for peacefully practising their faith

If Russia has its way, Raif Fevziev's children will be young adults when their father is released from a sentence based solely on a conversation in his own home, and on his civic activism

Not only is the occupying state prosecuting journalists for citing a UN report on rights violations in occupied Crimea, but it has claimed that this constituted 'abuse of freedom of mass information'

Volodymyr Dudka and Oleksiy Bessarabov got horrific sentences, despite obviously fabricated ‘evidence’, for being Ukrainian and because they had refused to admit to the preposterous charges

This is the latest of very many such ‘trials’ based solely on fake witnesses and ‘confessions’ extracted through savage torture

Russia is violating international law both by imprisoning Crimean political prisoners and by holding them thousands of kilometres from their home

Three men have been imprisoned for 12-17 years, without any crime, on the basis of planted ‘prohibited religious literature’ which Oleksandr Sizikov could not have read as it wasn’t in Braille and a notorious ‘secret witness’

58-year-old Akim Gafarov, who was seized from occupied Kherson oblast back in 2022, was also deemed to not be ill enough despite serious health issues

Suleiman Yusupov was hunted down by the notorious CrimeanSMERSH, forced to ‘repent’ on video and ‘tried’ for asking why others were silent when Russia was trying to crush their freedom

Zodiye Saliyeva is a veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement and no stranger to repression. Russia is now imprisoning her son on the same grotesque charges used under Stalin to execute her grandfather

The fine imposed is cripplingly high, with this only one of several such prosecutions which appear aimed at crushing a valuable source of truthful information

Russia has blocked all information about the insane charges against the Ukrainian pensioner from occupied Crimea, but could not conceal the fact that she is a political prisoner

Russia has claimed at least 40 Ukrainian men and women were involved in ‘sabotage’ plots with the only ‘evidence’ typically provided by videoed ‘confessions’ extracted through torture

Amet Suleimanov should never have been imprisoned, let alone delivered a death sentence for his Crimean Solidarity journalism.  Please help ensure that Russia is stopped from carrying it out!

Russia is not even trying to conceal the fact that it is targeting civic journalists and activists of the Crimean Tatar human rights movement - and, effectively, their children

Tamara Bratseva is one of thirty Crimean Jehovah's Witnesses to be serving prison sentences or facing criminal prosecution for studying the Bible and practising their faith under Russia's occupation of Crimea

The Russian invaders first flung Nariman Abliazov’s wife into their basement prison soon after their seizure of Henichesk, and have now passed an illegal sentence against Abliazov

There are no limits, in life or death, to Russia's brutality against those like Iryna Danilovych who refuse to be silenced