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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia stages fourth ‘trial’ of 67-year-old Crimean political prisoner to ensure he dies in captivity

This time ‘treason’ charges have been laid against a Ukrainian patriot targeted for his unconcealed opposition to Russia’s occupation of Crimea.

Russia abducts Crimean Tatar trying to see dying aunt and accuses her of ‘treason’ for donations to Ukrainian Army

43-year-old Diana Havryliuk has three children, with the younger two still not aware why their mother disappeared months ago

Ukrainian ex-military man sentenced to 18 years in Russian-occupied Crimea on surreal ‘treason’ charges

This was Act II in Russia’s double-barrel persecution of two former military servicemen – Ruslan Chorny-Shvets and Serhiy Lykhomanov

Russia brings cynical new criminal charges against Crimean Tatar political prisoner with malignant brain tumour

Tofik Abdulgaziev has been charged with ‘contempt of court’ after expressing his indignation at being forced to sign a ‘clean bill of health’, a document that his brain tumour made him unable to read

Terror unrelenting as Russian courts uphold 15-year sentences for ‘treason’ against an invader

Niyara Ermambetova was seized just days after her mother’s funeral, with her elderly father now left to look after her two children. It is not known when Oksana Invanchenko was abducted, but she has four children

Russia’s FSB report the ‘arrest’ of a young mother 18 months after they abducted her in occupied Crimea

The videoed 'confession' was doubtless extracted, almost certainly through torture or threats, during the 15 months when Sakha Manhubi was held incommunicado in an FSB-controlled prison

Maryna Ryff disappears in Russian-occupied Crimea after refusing to hide her pro-Ukrainian position

Russia increasingly resorts to abductions with Maryna Ryff’s disappearance reported as two other Ukrainian women, imprisoned for 18 months, were finally ‘found’ in Russian captivity

Russian medical torture and effective death sentences for civic activism in occupied Crimea

Russia falsifies medical records and openly flout its own legislation in order to carry out reprisals to the end against Crimean Tatar and other Crimean political prisoners savagely persecuted for their refusal to remain silent

Crimean gets long sentence for opposing invasion while Russian politicians freely incite to genocide against Ukraine

Serhiy Tubolets is the latest victim of Russia's use of flawed 'terrorism' legislation in its arsenal against Ukrainians

Terror behind closed doors: Russia’s abductions, torture and monstrous sentences in occupied Crimea

The massive spike in surreal 'treason' trials and sentences is continuing, with less and less known about each victim invariably identifying as opponents of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russia brings new 5-year sentence against Crimean political prisoner over 2022 social media post

Valery Shevchuk is one of a rapidly increasing number of Ukrainians imprisoned for criticism of Russian aggression, with the fact that this can be over very old social media posts especially chilling

Russian legislation used as weapon against 74-year-old historian and the truth about the Crimean Tatar Deportation

74-year-old Enver Seitmemetov was an obvious target of repression for a regime that is increasingly using propaganda, legislation and insane prosecutions to rewrite history and white out its crimes