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Monstrous sentences in Russia’s war against Crimean Tatar civic activists and their children

Five Crimean Tatar civic activists have been sentenced to 12 and 14 years’ imprisonment without any crime and solely on the basis of ‘anonymous witnesses’ who had probably never set eyes on them

Seven Jehovah’s Witnesses put on trial in Russian-occupied Crimea for studying the Bible

On 9 April 2022, a Russian court revoked the first and only acquittal of a Ukrainian believer since Russia’s ban of the Jehovah’s Witnesses five years ago and its illegal repression in occupied Crimea

Russia sentences Crimean Tatar to 17 years for solidarity with political prisoners

A court in Russia has sentenced Emil Ziyadinov to 17 years after a farcical ‘trial’ that made no pretence of trying to prove that the 37-year-old Crimean Solidarity civic activist had committed anything but ‘thought crimes’

Chief Rabbi of Odesa: “Ukraine is the safest country in the world for Jews”

“Previously I loved and respected the Ukrainian people. But now, after the beginning of the war, I’m simply over the moon about them".

Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s child told by Russian officer that they’ll come back for him – and they have

Amar was just 14 when the Russian FSB came for his father, Tofik Abdulgaziev, and 22 other Crimean Tatar civic journalists or activists

Crimean Tatar veteran activist faces 20 years in Russian prison for somebody else’s voice on a tape

Independent experts have confirmed that Azamat Eyupov’s voice is not on the taped conversation about religion and Russian persecution which Russia’s FSB is using as alleged grounds for a prison sentence of up to 20 years

Russia sentences two Crimean Tatars to 17 and 13 years for talking about their faith

A Russian ‘court’ has sentenced two Crimean Tatars active in the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement to 30 years’ imprisonment for conversations back in 2016 about their religious beliefs

Russia passes monstrous sentences on Crimean Solidarity human rights activists

A Russian ‘court’ notorious for conveyor belt ‘trials’ of Ukrainian political prisoners has passed 14- and 15-year sentences against five Crimean Tatars, all of them activists for the Crimean Solidarity human rights group

Russia revokes sole acquittal of Crimean Tatar civic journalist and political prisoner

A Russian appeal court has revoked the sole acquittal of a Crimean political prisoner and upheld horrific sentences against seven other Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists

Russia targets entire families in its savage persecution of Crimean Tatars

All of the men in Fatma Ismailova’s family - her husband, Rustem Ismailov, her father Enver Omerov and brother Riza Omerov - have been sentenced, without any recognizable crime, to horrific sentences

Russia passes 19-year sentences against Crimean Tatar journalist and activists for defending human rights

A Russian court has sentenced journalist Remzi Bekirov and human rights activist Riza Izetov to 19 years’ imprisonment, with three other Crimean Tatar civic activists receiving only slightly shorter sentences.

Families and lawyers prevented from attending Russia’s reprisal sentencing of Crimean Tatar journalist and civic activists

Russian officials have illegally prevented lawyers and the families of journalist Remzi Bekirov and four other Crimean Tatar political prisoners from travelling to Rostov in Russia for the verdict in the men’s ‘trial’. 

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