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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Death is Russia’s only limit in torment of Crimean Tatar political prisoner Tofik Abdulgaziev and his family

Rosa Abdulgazieva died without seeing her son who has been imprisoned since 2019, in reprisals for his Crimean Solidarity civic activism, with Russia now also persecuting Tofik Abdulgaziev's son, Amar

Armed terror, long sentences & fines under Russian occupation for up to 12-year-old pro-Ukrainian social media posts

A cartoon of Putin drinking Ukraine's blood from 2014, a call in 2022 from a Ukrainian for other Ukrainians to support their own Armed Forces, these are just two of the old posts dredged up for Russia to hunt down Ukrainian patriots

Volodymyr Ananiev turns 77 in Russian captivity in brutal reprisal for his pro-Ukrainian position and civic activism

Russia's oldest Ukrainian political prisoner is facing a massive sentence which all Russians complicit in his persecution, including the 'judge', know in advance that he cannot survive

Freedom House rates Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine as less free than the most notorious dictatorships

Freedom House rates Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory as less free even than the most notorious dictatorships

'Treason' charges against Crimean political prisoner imprisoned twice for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Since Yevhen Shved has been imprisoned since June 2023, it is likely that the new charges are over social media posts or fake testimony from other prisoners

Health concerns mount for 62-year-old Larysa Haidai, held incommunicado for two years while FSB fabricated charges

Larysa Haidai is one of three women abducted by the FSB in March 2024 and held in total isolation, probably to extract ‘confessions’ and come up with charges

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