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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Crimean gets long sentence for anti-war posts 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

Russia’s FSB concocts charges two years after abducting Elvira Abliazova and holding her in total isolation

The FSB call it 'defrosting' when they finally imitate procedure after months or years of enforced disappearance

Polish court allows extradition of Russian archaeologist to Ukraine over crimes in occupied Crimea

While there is a long way to go, this is a hugely important precedent, one that will hopefully be noted by those involved in work on occupied territory for the aggressor state

Crimean sentenced to 18 years for a phone video of boats from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet

Russia’s FSB first hid Charaz Akimov, almost certainly torturing him to extract a ‘confession’, which was still not enough to come up with any realistic charges, despite two ‘trials’

Russia sentences Crimean to 15 years for sharing information available on Google Maps

Not only were there no state secrets, but the information was even listed in the appalling sentence passed against 47-year-old Ihor Bunin

Ukrainian political prisoner faces new 'trial' and life sentence for opposing Russia's occupation of Crimea

Oleh Prykhodko is 67 and has already spent seven years in Russian captivity in reprisal for his openly pro-Ukrainian stand.

Crimean Tatar political prisoner with a malignant brain tumour forced to sign a fake ‘clean bill of health’

Under pressure from the FSB, Russian 'doctors' have proven willing to betray their oath and effectively ensure that Tofik Abdulgaziev dies a very painful death in a Russian prison colony

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