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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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55-year-old Ukrainian from occupied Crimea sentenced to 17 years on FSB-fabricated ‘attempted treason’ charges

Volodymyr Zosyk is the latest of a huge number of Ukrainians from occupied Crimea, forced to taken Russian citizenship and then accused of supposed 'treason' with respect to Russia

Crimeans given long sentences for ‘calls to terrorism’ – comments on social media in support of Ukraine against Russian aggressor

The secrecy which Russia has imposed makes it impossible to check the actual comments, but they pertain to legitimate targets and have nothing to do with 'terrorism', even according to Russian norms

Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witness faces 6-year sentence on charge of ‘financing extremist activities’ for shared worship

53-year-old Volodymyr Chertov is the latest in a mounting number of believers persecuted by the Russian occupation regime for their faith

Crimean Olha Tsyryk gets16-year sentence after blitzkrieg ‘trial’ for selfies and anti-Russian comments

No mention is made of the fact that Olha Tsyryk was abducted a year earlier and held completely incommunicado

Crimean Tatar political prisoner returned to die in Russian captivity is in critical condition

Russia should never have imprisoned Lenur Khalilov, but its present treatment of a man who is probably dying is especially savage

UN Committee against Racial Discrimination slams Russia’s persecution of three Crimean Tatar lawyers

Crimean Tatars make up a totally disproportionate percentage of Russia’s Crimean political prisoners, with their lawyers also consistently subjected to persecution

Abducted 63-year-old Crimean sentenced to 19 years for support of Ukraine which Russia called ‘treason’

Russia has imposed near total secrecy over its abduction almost three years ago and 'trial with a predetermined outcome' of Oleksandr Osadchy

Russia labels Crimean Solidarity, lawyers & journalists 'foreign agents' in new attempt to crush Crimean Tatar human rights movement

Russia has dropped all pretence after its torture, threats, administrative arrests and massive sentences on fabricated charges failed to silence the vital Crimean Solidarity movement

Medical torture to the end against Crimean Tatar political prisoner with malignant tumour and his family

Both Russian doctors and judges are complicit, either by omission or through direct steps, in Russia’s persecution of a Crimean Solidarity activist for his refusal to remain silent about Russian repression.

17-year sentences in Russian captivity for refusing to betray Ukraine

More details have emerged of the insane 'trial' of Border Guard officers Vasyl Dmytriuk and Ivan Tereshchenko, including the fact that refusal to claim that Crimea is 'Russian' was viewed by the occupation 'court' as an aggravating circumstance

Pensioners and mothers targeted for Russia’s ‘treason trial’ terror in occupied Ukraine

The hunger strike that Niyara Ersmambetova has been forced to declare highlights the brutality of all these sentences, including the latest against Ivan Chorny who is 72 and would be unlikely to survive 13 years’ captivity

Russia extracts surreal ‘confession’ a year after abducting 59-year-old Maryna Kovalenko

No attempt to make the charges against Maryna Kovalenko even remotely plausible and it is possible that she was targeted because her son is serving in Ukraine's Armed Forces

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