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70-year-old Crimean Jehovah’s Witness convicted of ‘organizing an extremist organization’ for practising her faith

“Real freedom is not the place you are in, but the presence of truth inside you”  Tamara Bratseva stated during her ‘trial’ in response to the prosecutor’s demand of a real 6-year sentence

From 17-year sentence to death in Russian captivity for Crimean Tatar political prisoner accused of another person’s voice on a tape?

Russia’s FSB targeted Azamat Eyupov, veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement, for his peaceful protest against Russian repression, with nothing allowed to prevent a 17-year sentence

First criminal charges and imprisonment for studying the Bible in Russian-occupied Donbas

While next to nothing is known about this latest victim of Russian persecution on occupied territory, the case is disturbing as it is likely to be Russia's test run of religious persecution, with more arrests almost certain to follow

Russia releases gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner after causing the death of several others

Lenur Khalilov should never have been imprisoned, and is likely to have been ill for a long time without any reaction

Head of traditionally Moscow-affiliated Ukrainian Orthodox Church stripped of his citizenship

Questions are inevitable, especially given the SBU’s serious allegations and the fact that the Russian citizenship was known about since 2023

Prosecution witness confirms lack of any grounds for Russia’s 'terrorism' charges against Crimean Tatar civic activists

The testimony from a former employee of the Crimean Muftiate totally rejected the surreal and immensely cynical ‘terrorism’ charges which Russia is using to crush the Crimean Tatar human rights movement

Huge sentences demanded in Russia’s reprisal for humiliation over Ukrainian attack on military airbase

Five Crimean Tatars face sentences of 11-17 years, one of them a likely death sentence, with the pretext for ‘terrorism’ charges a conversation about prayer which the FSB had illicitly taped seven years earlier

19-year sentence for Crimean Solidarity journalism not enough – Russia steps up persecution of Remzi Bekirov

Russia used religious faith as pretext for massive sentences against Remzi Bekirov and 24 other Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists and is now weaponizing it again to make his life even more difficult in Russian prison

Certain death warrant as six Crimean Tatar activists sentenced to 14 years ‘for refusing to be silent’ about Russian repression

14 years for discussing daily prayers and other aspects of the men’s faith – and for refusing to remain silent about Russia’s lawless repression in occupied Crimea

Even Russian prison service asks to release blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Sizikov

Russia’s FSB, prosecutors and ‘judges’ were willing to sentence Sizikov to 17 years and send him to Siberia for speaking out about repression in occupied Crimea

Ukraine’s Constitution in question as believers sentenced to three years for refusing to fight

Religious believers like Jehovah’s Witness Vitalii Kryushenko and Seventh Day Adventist Dmytro Zelinsky did not refuse to serve their country. They were denied their right to do so through alternative, non-combat, service

Russian FSB carry out new terror raids and arrests by quota in occupied Crimea

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

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