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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Unending torment as Valentyn Vyhivsky, other Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russian captivity after long sentences

Valentyn and his family have already suffered enough after 11 long years, as have others, like Hennadiy Lymeshko who was seized after serving an 8-year sentence and sentenced to two more years

At least 55 Crimeans are held incommunicado, without charges, in notorious FSB-controlled prison

64-year-old Marat Batyrov and Sakha Manhubi, a young mother with two small children, are now known to have been held at SIZO-2 for up to a year with the isolation and lack of official recognition often used by the FSB to torture out 'confessions'

Monstrous 18-year sentence against 66-year-old Ukrainian from Russian-occupied Sevastopol

Russia’s ‘treason trials’ in occupied Crimea all seem to come from the same conveyor belt, with the sentence against Oleksandr Hlukhoiedov one of three churned out on virtually identical charges

Russia’s attack on Crimean Solidarity extends repression to all lawyers defending political prisoners

The list of new targets, the vast majority of whom are Crimean Tatars, is huge, and includes human rights defenders, journalists and the fathers, wives or other close family members of political prisoners

Chersonese in Russian-occupied Crimea added to UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger

It is, tragically, not only Tauric Chersonese which Russia is destroying in its attempt to commandeer and rewrite history. Its destruction of the vital Crimean Tatar Khans Palace in Bakhchysarai has been no less barbaric

Russia sentences 59-year-old Maryna Kovalenko whose son is defending Ukraine to 13 years for 'treason'

Not only is it unclear what the information is that the ex-Luhansk school head is supposed to have passed to Ukraine's SBU or why they were interested, but when she could have done so before she was abducted

Vital Crimean Solidarity human rights movement forced to terminate activities after Russia labels it a ‘foreign agent’

Russia will win if, by escalating terror against Crimean Solidarity and all those on occupied territory whom it can abduct, torture, imprison or kill, the world goes silence on its repression. It will continue to fail if we add our solidarity

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

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