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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Russia fabricates charges to imprison Crimean Tatar activists and as weapon for deportation from their homeland

Russia has used horrific sentences in reprisal against those civic journalists and activists who refused to be silenced or to leave occupied Crimea. Now it is cynically using such fabricated charges as excuse for later driving them from Crimea

Brutal 12-year ‘treason’ sentences against Crimean woman with MS and her daughter, seized while her baby was in intensive care

Victoria Strilets needs care and ongoing medication to slow the development of her multiple sclerosis. Her daughter Oleksandra should be with her two small daughters, one of whom was fighting for her life when the Russians seized her mother

No mercy for dying Crimean Tatar civic activist imprisoned for reporting Russian repression

Russia is flouting its own legislation and demonstrating horrific brutality in failing to release Tofik Abdulgaziev, who should be with his family at this time

Prominent Crimean Tatar journalist and political scientist prosecuted for ‘extremism’ in an academic work

The occupation authorities were evidently looking for any pretext to harass Lenora Dyulber, presenter of the Crimean Tatar talk show Merkez and came up with two, each as preposterous as the other

Worse than North Korea and plummeting. Russia hits new depths in Crimea, other occupied parts of Ukraine

Russia is quite openly using terror and repression in occupied Crimea to silence all voices of dissent and of Ukrainian identity with it likely that the situation is at least as bad on other occupied territory

Ex-military and Ukrainian: No more needed for Russian ‘treason trials’ and massive sentences

Both Ruslan Chorny-Shvets and Serhiy Lykhomanov were seized over two years ago in occupied Sevastopol, with threats against Serhiy’s family used to force him to admit to surreal charges

Desperate plea from Russian prison: Ukrainian political prisoners need to be freed now, not after 'peace deal'

Iryna Danilovych, human rights defender, journalist and Crimean political prisoner, is not alone in stressing that the release of political prisoners, abducted civilians and POWs cannot be held hostage to other negotiations

Imprisoned Crimean Solidarity activist Tofik Abdulgaziev needs urgent operation for a malignant brain tumour

Tofik Abdulgaziev has been imprisoned since 2019 for his integrity and human rights activism, with Russia causing all of the earlier conditions which have gravely undermined his health

Russia’s supreme court OKs illegal charges & faked 'evidence' against Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Russian ‘judges’ saw no problem in rubberstamping an evident and internationally condemned attack on civic journalists and activists from the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement

Two Ukrainian women could face 6-year sentences for their faith as Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea

50-year-old Olena Ivashina and Olha Podlesna (55) are under house arrest following the latest armed raids against men and women for studying the Bible

Russia sentences disabled Crimean Tatar from occupied Kherson oblast to 8 years for opposing its occupation of Crimea

Eldar Karamurzaev is one of thirty men abducted from occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts and illegally charged under Russian legislation with legal activities on Ukrainian territory

Chillingly lawless armed raid on Crimean Tatar lawyers defending victims of Russian repression

With Russia having crushed any independent media in occupied Crimea and imprisoned civic journalists and activists, the lawyers defending political prisoners are often their only voice - a voice that Russia is trying to silence

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