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Court in Russia reduces charge against Crimean Tatar political prisoner but retains appalling sentence

The sentence against Ernes Seitosmanov should have been overturned altogether, but this was a political trial, and the ‘judges’ lacked the courage to do more than make a minimal reduction

Fake ‘secret witness’ exposed in Russia’s politically timed persecution of Crimean Solidarity journalist and other Crimean Tatars

Six Crimean Tatars were arrested on entirely different charges, but immediately after Russia suffered a humilating attack on a military airbase in occupied Crimea

Russia sentences Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses to long terms of imprisonment for refusing to renounce their faith

It was claimed that Volodymyr Maladyka, Volodymyr Sakada and Yevhen Zhukov 'had committed a grave crime against the constitutional order and the security of the state” by practising their faith

Russian FSB seize Crimean Tatar family’s last son in new wave of terror against Crimean Solidarity activists

Russia has taken all three sons from Crimean Tatar historian Shukri Seitumerov and his wife Lilia, with the persecution in each case chillingly similar to the charges used during Stalin's Terror to arrest and execute their great-grandfather

Russia sees “no grounds” to obey ECHR over deportation of Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Crimean Tatar civic journalist Seiran Saliyev and other Ukrainian political prisoners are held thousands of kilometres from their homes and families

Two Ukrainians face long sentences for Bible studies in Russian-occupied Crimea

Yuriy Herashchenko and Serhiy Parfenovych face up to ten years’ imprisonment for practising their faith, with no possibility, by definition, of a fair trial.

13-year sentences for somebody else's conversation in cynical rehash of Russia's first attack on Crimean Tatar rights activists

The indictment and ‘evidence’ against Oleh Fedorov and Ernest Ibragimov were not only based on an identical political trial four years earlier, but one of the men’s voices was not even on the innocent conversation used as ‘evidence’

15 years in Russian captivity for helping Crimean Solidarity human rights movement

Russia has now sentenced 25 Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists (including the late Dzhemil Gafarov whom it effectively tortured to death) to 355 years’ imprisonment for refusing to remain silent about its repression in occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar journalist sent to Siberia for 19 years for reporting on Russian repression in occupied Crimea

Remzi Bekirov was described by a former US Ambassador to Ukraine as “an inspiration, not only to your fellow Ukrainians, but to freedom-loving people around the world"

Russia ignores own sentences to ramp up reprisals against Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Crimean Solidarity civic activist Rustem Emiruseinov and two other Crimean Tatars, Arsen Abkhairov and Eskender Abdulganiev, have now been illegally held in the worst of Russian prison cells for six months longer than their sentences demand

Crimean Tatar prisoner of conscience and victim of FSB torture urgently hospitalized in Russia

Emir-Usein Kuku, a recognized prisoner of conscience, has faced serious kidney problems since an attempted Russian abduction turned into ‘arrest’ after a crowd thwarted the FSB’s plans

Russia passes record 20-year sentence in revenge for Crimean Solidarity human rights defence

This is the worst sentence to date against a Crimean Tatar political prisoner and comes as Russia is increasingly releasing men convicted of real crimes, if they agree to fight in Ukraine

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