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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Crimean students’ grades lowered for not writing 'thank you letters' to Russian soldiers invading Ukraine

Russia has been forcing children and their teachers to produce letters to the soldiers committing war crimes since soon after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Ukrainian becomes first Jehovah’s Witness to face escalated persecution in Russian prison

Russia has been persecuting Ukrainian believers since soon after its appalling ban of a world faith, however this is the first time that any Jehovah’s Witness has faced such an escalation in sentence

Russia drops all pretence in latest conveyor belt trial of six Crimean Tatar political prisoners

The FSB are clearly certain of their full impunity and make no effort to even ensure that the 'testimony' of its 'secret witnesses' match the photos allegedly enabling identification of the defendants

Ukrainian scientist banned from occupied Crimea and his elderly mother in reprisal for refusing Russian citizenship

Guriy Kornilyev formally rejected Russian citizenship “to not give Putin the chance to claim to be protecting him”. Russia’s revenge is brutal

Crimean Tatar political prisoner suffers heart attack in torture-like Russian prison

Russia is now directly endangering the lives of two recognized political prisoners persecuted as part of its attack on the Crimean Tatar human rights movement

Crimean sentenced to 5 years for Ukrainian Yellow Ribbon activism against Russian occupation

The ‘Yellow Ribbon’ movement does not gel well with Russia’s false narrative aimed at justifying its occupation of Ukrainian Crimea

Russia sentences Crimean to 8 years on 'treason' and 'terrorism' charges for wanting to defend Ukraine

Albert Kruhlov never concealed his opposition to Russia’s occupation of Crimea, and is imprisoned for his support for Ukraine, whether or not he was genuinely seized while seeking to join the Azov Regiment

Abducted Crimean Tatar political prisoner tortured in Russian prison

Rustem Osmanov was abducted from his home in occupied Kherson oblast and then 'tried' in occupied Crimea on the basis of a 'confession' tortured out of him. That torture is ongoing in Russian captivity

Crimean Tatar newspaper editor prosecuted for telling Crimeans not to fight Russia's war against Ukraine

68-year-old Bekir Mamutov and the founder of Qirim are facing two of Russia’s arsenal of silencing norms, including one rushed into legislation after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine

64-year-old pensioner jailed in Russian-occupied Crimea for social media posts of a Ukrainian Trident and thanking Ukraine's defenders

Maria Zamyrailo-Levytska is the latest of many Ukrainians to be hunted down by the notorious 'Crimean SMERSH' and then prosecuted on surreal charges for supporting Ukraine

Russia steps up harassment of Crimean Tatar human rights activists and lawyers before 80th anniversary of 1944 Deportation

Only the Russian occupation regime could ban gatherings to honour the victims of an act of genocide and treat such remembrance as ‘extremism’

Massive spike in ‘List of Terrorists and Extremists’ as Russia persecutes critics of its war against Ukraine and LGBT

Russia’s failure to heed warnings about the recent Crocus City Hall terrorist attack was probably because its enforcement bodies were far too busy fabricating cases against Ukrainians or those opposing Russia’s war of aggression

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