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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Brutal 16-year sentence against 67-year-old Crimean pensioner for being from Western Ukraine

Nina Tymoshenko will be turning 68 in a few weeks, and would be very unlikely to survive the 16-year sentence for supposedly passing on information she is unlikely to have had any access to

58-year-old Luhansk school head abducted in Crimea and charged with ‘treason’ for donations to Ukraine’s Army

On the cynical charges and likely sentence against Maryna Kovalenko, 17-year-sentence against Liudmyla Kolesnikova, who returned to her dying mother, as well as Russia's 'reward' - a 20-year sentence - for a Ukrainian traitor

Chilling denial, despite videoed evidence, of Russia’s abduction of Sevastopol IT analyst Serhiy Hrishchenkov

It will soon be ten months since 58-year-old Serhiy Hryshchenkov was abducted, with it frightening unclear why the FSB are denying their evident involvement in this

Brutal Russian roulette with the life of gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner

Results of a recent echocardiogram are alarming, yet the Russian prison authorities are doing nothing to minimise the direct danger to Amet Suleimanov’s life

Crimean Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to six years for refusing to renounce his faith

Russia has, once again, brought repression against an entire family, with Vitaliy Buryk not persecuted because of 'extremist activities', but because he continued to practise his faith

‘Witness’ changes story to fit prosecution in Russia’s ‘trial’ of 75-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Ananiev

This is not the first time that huge discrepancies in 'testimony' have pointed to fabricated charges and duress, with 'judges' at the Southern District Military Court turning a blind eye

Crimean seized at Moscow airport, faces up to 20-year sentence for donations to Ukraine

Kyrylo Kostyhov was detained, subjected to fake administrative prosecutions until the FSB came up with 'treason' charges over donations totalling 22 euros

Armed terror and planted ‘prohibited literature’ in new attack on Crimean Tatar family

Russia's FSB came for two Crimean Tatars on 12 February, leaving children deeply traumatized. Nariman Seitaliev is in custody, while Yunus Suleimanov has disappeared

Crimean women face prison sentences on ‘extremism’ charges for studying the Bible

The armed 'searches' and interrogations of Halyna Pryvalova and Anna Moroz were aimed solely at 'proving' that the women were practising Jehovah's Witnesses, something that neither woman would ever deny

When Russia first turned its terror against children

“The real terrorists are those who burst into the homes of people peacefully sleeping, who intimidate people who tell the truth; those who have turned Crimea into a military base" - Vadym Siruk. We could add also those who so brutally end childhood

Crimean abducted, then sentenced to 18 years after criticizing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Taras Khudak was abducted at least six months before Russia came up with suspect 'treason' charges, almost certainly aimed at terrorizing the public into silence and obedience

Russia ‘arrests’ Crimean mother of two 15 months after abducting and hiding her

News of the charges against Sakha Manhubi coincided with yet another massive sentence against Yevhen Hudenkov who was held incommunicado and probably tortured for almost the same amount of time

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