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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Ukrainian political prisoner accused of ‘recruiting Russians to fight for Ukraine’

There are fears that Russia may be planning to fabricate new charges against Hennady Lymeshko who is already serving an 8-year sentence on surreal charges

Open death threats against Ukrainian political prisoner in Russian captivity

There is every reason to believe that the appalling treatment that Ivan Yatskin is facing in Russian captivity is, like his very arrest, linked with his firmly pro-Ukrainian position

Young Crimean Tatar seized trying to visit her gravely ill father held in Russian solitary confinement

Russia's seizure and charges against Leniye Umerova have been described as one of the most overtly fabricated cases to date, and the competition since Russia began its aggression against Ukraine has been fierce

Russia sentences human rights defender to 14 years for helping political prisoners seek justice from ECHR

Russia has reached “a new level of lawlessness” with its imprisonment of human rights defender Bakhrom Khamroev, with sinister methods that could well be used in occupied Crimea

Russian school textbooks delete Kyiv and 'explain the inevitability’ of Russia’s war against Ukraine

The material pushes a seriously distorted, and often openly false, picture of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russia plans life sentences for charges used against Ukrainian political prisoners and opponents of its war in Ukraine

While Russia is releasing men convicted of grave crimes if they agree to fight in Ukraine, it is introducing new legislation radically increasing the sentences often used against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

Teachers, colleagues, neighbours face Soviet era denunciations for opposing war against Ukraine in occupied Crimea and Russia

Just as in the worst years of Soviet terror, it has become dangerous to openly speak of the crimes Russia is committing in Ukraine, or even shout ‘Glory to Ukraine’.

In Memory: Hennadiy Afanasiev

Hennadiy Afanasiev, former Kremlin hostage and civic activist has been killed while defending Ukraine. Oleh Sentsov, fellow Crimean, former political prisoner, responded to the news with the words “Eternal Glory to a Hero”. 

Russian Prosecutor General given power to close media for ‘discrediting the army’ through truth about the war against Ukraine

Russia’s State Duma has adopted a draft bill allowing the prosecutor general to close media in Russia or occupied Crimea for so-called ‘fakes’, ‘discrediting the army’; ‘disrespect for the authorities’ or for calls to impose sanctions

ECHR rules too late against Russia’s notorious ‘foreign agent’ law and hardly moves over violations in occupied Crimea

The judgement might have been hailed as a victory for civil society in Russia and occupied Crimea, had it not been so hopelessly belated.

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