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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Crimean imprisoned for ‘discrediting Russia’s army’ and its war crimes in Ukraine on social media

Danylo Seryohin is the latest victim of draconian legislation rushed through immediately after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in order to silence protest

Medical torture continues as Ukrainian journalist and human rights activist deported to Russian prison

It is possibly deliberate policy that Russia's criminal charges against civic journalist Iryna Danilovych were so evidently fabricated, as a lesson to others of what they too can expect in revenge for civic courage and speaking the truth

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

Russia bans school remembrance of victims of the Crimean Tatar Deportation as ‘provocation’

Russia has been systematically harassing, detaining and even prosecuting Crimean Tatars for flying their flag and honouring the victims of the 1944 Deportation, and has now targeted schools

Armed terror and threats of imprisonment, or worse, if Crimean Solidarity journalist doesn't stop reporting repression in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia is not disguising its threats against Crimean Tatar journalist Kulamet Ibraimov if he continues courageously reporting repression in occupied Crimea

Russia increases revenge sentences against Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Nariman Dzhelyal and two cousins

Moscow has orchestrated sentences totalling 45 years and shattered three families in what was, from the outset, recognized as an act of revenge against Nariman Dzhelyal, for his part in the international Crimea Platform inaugural meeting in Kyiv.

Russia carries out mass arrests, including of Crimean Solidarity Coordinator and journalist Lutfiye Zudiyeva

The occupation regime dropped any pretence with the arrest of Nariman Dzhelyal and the mass detention on 27 July included two journalists who were simply trying to attend a supposedly open court hearing

Russian FSB threatened to kill Ukrainian sportsman’s mother to extract ‘confession’ to Crimean rail sabotage

Ukrainian orienteering sportsmen have issued an urgent appeal demanding that Russia end its torture of their colleague and #FreeKyryloBarannyk

Two Ukrainians face long sentences for Bible studies in Russian-occupied Crimea

Yuriy Herashchenko and Serhiy Parfenovych face up to ten years’ imprisonment for practising their faith, with no possibility, by definition, of a fair trial.

13-year sentences for somebody else's conversation in cynical rehash of Russia's first attack on Crimean Tatar rights activists

The indictment and ‘evidence’ against Oleh Fedorov and Ernest Ibragimov were not only based on an identical political trial four years earlier, but one of the men’s voices was not even on the innocent conversation used as ‘evidence’

Russians seize Crimean Tatar from occupied Kherson oblast in revenge for Ukraine’s Civic Blockade of Crimea

The only element of truth in the legal nonsense against Alim Veliliaev is that the activities he is accused of took place on Ukrainian territory over which Russia has never had any jurisdiction

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