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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Oleh Prykhodko sentenced to die in prison for insisting that Crimea is Ukraine and opposing Russia’s occupation

The methods used to fabricate this fourth 'trial' and 18.5-year sentence against the 67-year-old political prisoner are chilling and a great threat to all imprisoned on politically-motivated charges

30 years in unending captivity for Russia’s ‘Ukrainian saboteur’ show trial

Three friends with a shared Ukrainian naval background - all that Russia needed to fabricate its 'shoddiest' known 'saboteur plot' in occupied Crimea

Russia causes the death of Kharkiv teacher illegally seized trying to reach occupied Crimea

Please see significantly updated information from 10 November 2026

54-year-old Serhiy Diachuk has multiple rib fractures after two years in secret Russian FSB captivity

Serhiy Diachuk was held totally incommunicado for 18 months and is facing largely secret 'treason' charges

Crimean Tatar mother of three sentenced to 12.5 years for a donation to Ukraine’s Armed Forces

Diana Havryliuk was seized when she tried to get to occupied Crimea to see her dying aunt

Crimean held incommunicado and beaten for 6 months, then sentenced to 15 years in an afternoon

Even in the videoed 'confession' that Volodymyr Stoian was doubtless forced to make, he says only that he wanted at least in some way to help Ukraine

Gravely ill Crimean Solidarity political prisoner Tofik Abdulgaziev finally freed!

Tofik is now home with his family, and that is truly grounds for rejoicing! It is also grounds for stepping up public pressure to force the release of other dangerously ill political prisoners!

Abducted Melitopol men tell Russian court of four years ongoing torture and of prisoners executed in Russia’s secret prison

Four years after Roman Zarubaiev and Artur Nesterenko were abducted and savagely tortured for videoed 'confessions', a Russian court has sentenced them to 24 and 23 years, respectively, on the basis of those 'confessions'

FSB stages fake ‘arrest’ of 63-year-old Crimean after abducting her almost two years ago

Tamara Chernukha was the victim of an abduction, with the attempt some 20 months later to claim that she has just been 'arrested' of staggering cynicism

Russian court passes 18-year death sentence against 77-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Ananiev

Before the verdict handed down on 22 October by three Russian judges "who have lost all honour and conscience", Volodymyr Ananiev, who has serious medical issues, made it clear that any term of imprisonment will be a death sentence

Gravely ill political prisoner Lenur Khalilov ordered to die in pain in a Russian prison

Even the Russian oncologist confirmed that Lenur Khalilov's release should be automatic, given his metastatic liver cancer, yet prison staff, prosecutor and, most shamefully, the court, proved willing to invent any feeble excuse for keeping him imprisoned

15-19-year sentences in Russia's savage reprisal for Crimean Solidarity human rights activism

The conveyor-belt trial was the same and as predetermined as all the others. The victims and their families are not

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