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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
‘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

Abducted, tortured and sentenced to 17 years for opposing Russia’s invasion and for his love of Ukraine

Yevhen Melnychuk’s patriotism and his actions during Russia’s invasion of Crimea made him an obvious target for the aggressor state

Demand Russia obeys its own laws and releases blind Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Sizikov!

Please sign the petition and circulate it further. Russia’s imprisonment of Oleksandr Sizikov is in clear violation of Russia’s own legislation and publicity could just help at least get Oleksandr released as part of a prisoner exchange.

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