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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Imprisoned Crimean Tatar civic journalist will die soon without life-saving heart surgery

Amet Suleimanov should never have been imprisoned, let alone delivered a death sentence for his Crimean Solidarity journalism.  Please help ensure that Russia is stopped from carrying it out!

Relentless brutality against Crimean Tatar civic activist sentenced to 19 years for refusing to leave Crimea and his family

Russia is not even trying to conceal the fact that it is targeting civic journalists and activists of the Crimean Tatar human rights movement - and, effectively, their children

Russia may imprison 68-year-old for her faith after armed raids on Jehovah’s Witnesses in occupied Crimea

Tamara Bratseva is one of thirty Crimean Jehovah's Witnesses to be serving prison sentences or facing criminal prosecution for studying the Bible and practising their faith under Russia's occupation of Crimea

Crimean Tatar businessman abducted and imprisoned for supporting blockade of Russian-occupied Crimea 9 years ago

The Russian invaders first flung Nariman Abliazov’s wife into their basement prison soon after their seizure of Henichesk, and have now passed an illegal sentence against Abliazov

Russia’s final brutality against imprisoned Ukrainian civic journalist Iryna Danilovych

There are no limits, in life or death, to Russia's brutality against those like Iryna Danilovych who refuse to be silenced

Ukrainian sentenced to 18 years for supposed ‘gas pipe sabotage’ in Russian-occupied Crimea

Among the many reasons for concern about this ‘conviction’ is the fact that Serhiy Yerzhov was held incommunicado for a month before being formally detained, with this period used to extract a ‘confession’

Russia totally destroys Chersonese UNESCO site in grotesque attempt to justify Crimean occupation

It may be hard to imagine one of the invaders of England creating a ‘New Stonehenge’, aimed at staking their ‘historical right to the territory’, but that is what Russia is doing with Chersonese in occupied Crimea

Brutal Russian reprisals against prominent lawyer defending Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

The offensive against Alexei Ladin is overtly aimed at punishing independent lawyers defending the ever-mounting number of victims of Russian terror on occupied territory, and at deterring others from demonstrating such courage

Death by Russian imprisonment for monitoring repression in occupied Crimea

Instead of releasing Tofik Abdulgaziev as required by Russia’s own legislation, the prosecution has found medical personnel willing to lie and claim that he does not have the life-threatening conditions already diagnosed

Russia demolishes last Ukrainian Orthodox church in occupied Crimea

Russia’s attack on the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Crimea began immediately after its invasion, and it has used all forms of terror and lawlessness to try to drive the Church out

75-year-old among three Ukrainians abducted and tortured by Russian FSB on fake ‘terrorism’ charges

Russia's FSB have been fabricating 'Ukrainian saboteur plots' since soon after the invasion of Crimea, and there are no grounds for believing this plot to be any different, except that one of the victims, Volodymyr Ananiev is 75 and disabled

Russia imprisons one abducted Crimean Tatar on lawless charges, then comes back for his brothers

Russia has ramped up insane charges over a civic organization involved in the entirely legal and legitimate Crimean Blockade, in part to justify its abductions and terror in occupied parts of Kherson oblast