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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Crimean Tatar sentenced by Russia to 19 years for ‘religious dissidence’ hurled into punishment cell for prayer

This was near certainly a targeted attack on Muslim Aliev, an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience and fellow Crimean Tatar political prisoner Teymur Abdullayev

58-year-old Sevastopol activist sentenced to 15 years for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia has, as always, concealed virtually everything about its fast-track ‘treason trial’ against Oksana Senedzhuk, but there is every reason to believe that the charges and horrific sentence are politically motivated

Mustafa Dzhemilev: Russia’s occupation of Crimea spells the death of the Crimean Tatar people and forced exile

Russia would almost certainly use any 'peace deal' as opportunity to prepare for further aggression, while Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians under Russian occupation would continue to endure mounting terror and repression

Same fake ‘secret witness’ used in multiple Russian ‘trials’ of Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists

Crimean Solidarity journalist Rustem Osmanov and three civic activists are facing huge sentences without any crime on the basis of a ‘secret witness’ already used by the FSB for huge sentences in over ten other cases

Russia confirms revenge sentences against savagely tortured Crimean Tatar cousins, seized with Nariman Dzhelyal

All of the perpetrators need to be identified and punished for their role in this horrific travesty of justice against Asan Akhtemov and his cousin, Aziz Akhtemov

Duma broadens ‘treason’ charges against anybody opposing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

Russian legislators have dangerously broadened the definition of charges standardly used against Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages, while also extending the range of targets

Legislators equate criticism of Russia's war against Ukraine with ‘terrorism and extremism’

A new law just passed has handed Russia’s FSB yet another “powerful weapon of persecution” against those who tell the truth about Russia’s war crimes and about Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation

Mass ‘treason’ trials and huge sentences for helping Ukraine in Russian-occupied Crimea

The fact that Lenur Ibragimov may have earlier faced prosecution for peaceful civic activism, and that one of the ‘accusations’ against Vladyslav Afanasiev was of having donated to Ukraine’s Army only exacerbate concerns about such ‘trials’

Blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner taken to Russia for lawless 17-year sentence

All Russia's sentences against Crimean Muslims who have committed no crime are savage, but here they have brought insane 'terrorism' charges and are imposing a 17-year sentence against a man who cannot see and needs help to move around

Young Crimean sentenced to 16 years for circulating video on resistance to Russian occupation

26-year-old Eldar Abduraimov had circulated a video about the ATESH partisan movement which arose in 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russian court blocks Crimean Tatar political prisoners from ‘dragging out the trial’ by challenging fake prosecution witness

Russian ‘judge’ Roman Saprunov could not have stated more openly that the sentences against six Crimean Tatar civic activists are predetermined, with fake evidence not a problem

Long sentences against Ukrainians tortured into confessing to fake Crimean assassination plot

Oleksandr Lytvyenko and Kostiantyn Yevmenenko are among ten victims of just one of countless ‘Crimean saboteur’ cases which Russia’s FSB has been fabricating since 2014

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