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The Face of Russian terror against Crimean Tatars

Crimean Tatar Imam and civic activist gets 17-year sentence for talking about religion in his home 7 years ago

Two effective death sentences in Russia’s most savage attack on Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists

A Russian court has sentenced five Crimean Tatar recognized political prisoners to 13 years’ imprisonment, despite knowing that for two of the men, 60-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov and Servet Gaziev (62) this is a death sentence

Crimean Tatar civic journalist sentenced to 11 years for refusing to collaborate with Russia's FSB

Ernes Ametov has been sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment two years after the 37-year-old Crimean Tatar civic journalist and recognized political prisoner was acquitted on identical charges

Unending torture of Crimean Tatar political prisoner for refusal to collaborate with Russia’s FSB

The pretexts for almost permanently holding Teymur Abdullayev in the horrific conditions of a Russian punishment cell are as fabricated as the charges that Russia used to sentence the recognized political prisoner to 17 years

Russia violates its own laws in murderous reprisals against Crimean Tatar human rights movement

Without a recognizable crime, huge sentences have been demanded that at least two of the men have essentially no chance of surviving.

Two Ukrainian believers sentenced to six years in Russian-occupied Crimea for a Zoom conversation about the Bible

The Russian-controlled Armiansk city ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has sentenced 62-year-old Oleksandr Lytvyniuk and Oleksandr Dubovenko (49) to six years’ imprisonment purely for practising their faith

Russia sentences Crimean Solidarity activist to 17 years for defending political prisoners

A Russian court has sentenced Marlen Mustafayev to 17 years’ imprisonment on preposterous charges copy-pasted from another political trial initiated over three years ago.

Savage sentences against Crimean Tatar journalists for reporting on Russia’s ‘state terrorism’ in occupied Crimea

A Russian court has handed down 13-14-year sentences against three civic journalists and two activists taken prisoner in Russia’s most ferocious and internationally condemned attack to date on the Crimean Tatar human rights movement.

Russian court willing to kill 60-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner, heart attack or not

60-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov suffered a heart attack on 27 October in the Russian SIZO [remand prison], where the recognized political prisoner is held despite his life-threatening medical condition

Crimean Tatar political prisoner sentenced to 11 years for 'kitchen conversation' about religion and politics

A Russian court has sentenced 52-year-old has sentenced Yashar Shikhametov to eleven years’ imprisonment on the basis of flawed charges, planted religious literature and anonymous ‘witnesses’ who had quite likely never set eyes on him.

Russia wants 64-year-old Crimean Tatar to die in prison for refusing to collaborate in occupied Crimea

Zekirya Muratov, a pensioner and former musician has Grade III disability status and numerous grave medical conditions which make the long sentence as formal as the cynical charges against him.

New armed searches and arrests in Russian-occupied Crimea for reading the Bible

The Russian FSB carried out new armed searches of the homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses on 24 August, with two believers – 53-year-old Viktor Kudinov and Serhiy Zhygalov (51) taken into custody

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