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Russia sentences four Crimean Tatar civic activists to 53 years for ‘dissident views’

Seven years for murder in Russian-occupied Crimea, 17 years for practising your faith and showing solidarity with Russia's ever-mounting number of political prisoners

Russia effectively sentences veteran Crimean Tatar activist to death for somebody else’s voice on a tape

A second Russian court has found no problem in passing an effective death sentence, without any crime and without the defendant’s voice even on the tape of an innocuous conversation presented as ‘evidence’ against him

Crimean Tatar activist sentenced to 18 years for discussing religion and Russian repression

Only Moscow wins when the horrific sentences passed against innocent men, like Ernes Seitosmanov pass without adequate protest

Armed Russian FSB violently arrest peaceful Jehovah’s Witness in occupied Crimea

Russia’s FSB have arrested 31-year-old Jehovah’s Witness Maksym Zinchenko in occupied Feodosia bringing to 23 the number of Ukrainians in occupied Crimea either serving sentences or facing ‘trial’ purely for practising their faith

Russia upholds 14-year prison sentences for Crimean Tatar human rights activism

That justice could not be expected was clear from the day Russia launched its worst attack on the Crimean Tatar human rights movement to date, arresting 25 civic journalists and activists

Russia sentences blind and disabled Ukrainian to 17 years for discussing politics and religion

A Russian court has passed huge sentences against three Crimean Muslims on essentially ‘thought crime’ charges, with the longest sentence against a man who is blind and could not have read the books which the FSB planted in his home as ‘evidence’.

Russia seizes and plunders central Cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in occupied Crimea

The Russian occupation regime has called its forced seizure and looting of the central body of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Crimea “liberation”

Russian court helps prosecution fake evidence in ‘trial’ of Crimean Tatar civic activist

In a Russian political trial the court looks the other way even when the FSB’s ‘secret witness’ proves incapable of recognizing the defendant

Record 'low sentence' exposes brutal methods behind Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea

The ‘trial’ of Murat Mustafayev only eight months after his arrest and his four-year sentence show anything but a more humane side of Russia’s ‘justice system’

Russia flouts UN order and begins carrying out death sentence against Crimean Tatar civic journalist

A week after it took over the presidency of the United Nations Security Council, Russia has flouted the express order of the UN’s Committee against Torture and set about killing the second Crimean Tatar political prisoner in two months

Russia sentences Crimean Tatar political prisoner to 11 years for free thinking and civic activism

The charges against recognized Crimean Tatar political prisoner Vadim Bektemirov were based solely on the ‘testimony’ of fake secret witnesses and on a tape in which he expressed his opinion

Russia sentences Crimean Tatar journalist and human rights activists to 19 years for exposing its repression in occupied Crimea

These are the first five sentences passed in Russia’s worst offensive to date against the Crimean Tatar human rights movement, with journalist Remzi Bekirov and human rights defender Riza Izetov sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment without any crime

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