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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia doubles to 21 years its sentence against savagely tortured Crimean Tatar political prisoner Mamut Belyalov

Mamut Belyalov has been in Russian captivity since 10 September 2022, with it now claimed that the young man, who was just 24, committed ‘treason’ against the aggressor state

Russia comes for father of 19-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner after he actively sought her release

Nasiba Saidova, who was just 18 when arrested on 15 October 2025, two other very young women and Esma Nimetulayeva, a mother of five, are imprisoned for their religious beliefs and accused of ‘seeking to violently seize power’

New depths plummeted in Russia’s torment of Crimean Tatar political prisoner with a malignant brain tumour

While deliberately postponing hearings on the evident grounds for Tofik Abdulgaziev's release, a Russian court has convicted him of 'contempt of court' for expressing outrage over a brutal deception aimed at rubberstamping his continued imprisonment

Young lives as collateral damage for Russia’s brazen revenge against Crimean Tatar leader

Both civic journalist Asan Akhtemov and his cousin Aziz Akhtemov are imprisoned thousands of kilometres from their families because Russia wanted to fabricate a 'saboteur' plot

Russia’s FSB claim to have ‘arrested’ seriously ill Crimean woman and her brother 18 months after abducting their entire family

This is not the first time that Russia has claimed to have ‘arrested’ Ukrainians they have long held incommunicado, but the situation here is particularly worrying for several reasons

Young Crimean Jehovah’s Witness seized at Russian airport, faces long sentence for practising his faith

28-year-old Ilia Chertov is the second member of his family to be persecuted by the Russians solely for his faith

Abducted and tortured Crimean woman sentenced to 15 years for donations to Ukraine’s Army

Victoria Serhieieva was held incommunicado for months, with the FSB initially threatening to come for her children in order to force her to 'confess'

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