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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
13-year sentence on ‘treason’ charges for pro-Ukrainian graffiti in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ksenia Svietlishyna was hunted by the notorious Crimean SMERSH for her pro-Ukrainian messages. There are very serious grounds for doubting the other charges used as excuse for this appalling judicial travesty

Russia defies its own puppet court to further torment blind and disabled political prisoner

Russia’s reprisals against Oleksandr Sizikov have been relentless and brutal, with blindness never treated as impediment to surreal charges and planted literature which Sizikov could not read

75-year-old Volodymyr Ananiev is facing a massive sentence he can't survive for a 'crime' that never happened

The elderly Ukrainian, whose civic activism would have made him an obvious target, is being held in horrific conditions and denied even the most fundamental health care

Mass detentions four times as Crimean Tatar delegation heads to Moscow demanding justice

Russia is, yet again repeating Soviet ways in its persecution of Crimean Tatars, with the efforts to stop the Crimean Tatars from reaching Moscow both profoundly lawless and, ultimately, futile

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

Imprisoned Ukrainian marine biologist charged with ‘treason’ for opposing Russia’s plans in Antarctic area

Russia is openly persecuting 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov for remaining loyal to Ukraine and for seeking to protect marine resources and diversity in the Southern Ocean. Without robust international attention, he faces a 12-20-year sentence

Russian court orders rearrest and 17-year sentence against blind and disabled Crimean political prisoner

Russia’s prosecutor has confirmed that even blindness and Russian legislation envisaging Oleksandr Sizikov’s release are no impediment where Russia’s persecution of Crimean political prisoners is concerned

Menacing threats against human rights defender Lutfiye Zudiyeva after Russia’s arrests of four Crimean Tatar women

Russia is demonstratively showing that nobody is safe from persecution and terror in occupied Crimea and silence from the international community only increases the danger for those, like Lutfiye Zudiyeva, unwilling to be silenced

Courageous protest and disturbing silence over terrifying Russian attack on Crimean Tatar women

International protest is vital with Russia clearly sending a message that nobody is safe from being seized in armed raids and imprisoned for decades without any crime

Four Crimean Tatar women could face 20-year sentences in new wave of Russian terror in occupied Crimea

This is a terrifying escalation in Russian repression, with Russia now targeting women, including mothers and very young students

Crimean Tatar political prisoner rearrested to die in Russian captivity after release because of cancer

Russia has demonstrated contempt for its own laws, by so dooming Lenur Khalilov to die a painful death in the inhuman conditions of a Russian prison, thousands of kilometres from his family