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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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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

Crimean woman detained and charged with calls to ‘violence against Russians’ for supporting Ukraine on social media

Tetiana Bibik is one of an ever-increasing number of Crimean Ukrainians terrorised to extract supposed 'apologies' and deceived, since she is still facing a possible 5-year sentence for pro-Ukrainian social media posts

63-year-old Crimean Tatar violently detained and jailed for comments in support of the Mejlis and Ukraine

Russia’s use of ‘Crimean SMERSH’ to hunt out and terrorise Crimeans for their pro-Ukrainian position is always disturbing, but there are other worrying elements here also

More sentences passed, one escalated for studying the Bible in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia is continuing to find Ukrainian Jehovah's Witnesses, in this case Serhiy Parfenovych and Yury Herashchenko guilty of ‘organizing extremist activities’ for practising their faith

Russia resorts to fake medical assessments to conceal death sentence against Crimean Tatar civic journalist Amet Suleimanov

The Russians implicated in imprisoning Amet Suleimanov for reporting Russian repression in Crimea are willing to cause his death rather than ‘risk’ releasing a political prisoner

Pensioner jailed in Russian-occupied Crimea for expressing support for Ukraine in a shop

The prosecution of 63-year-old Anatoliy Holiakovych and, seemingly, his son, underscores the pro-Ukrainian and anti-war sentiments in occupied Crimea, and the sinister methods Russia uses to fight them

Russia’s Investigative Committee tortures Ukrainians for fabricated ‘trials’, and now demands the death penalty

Aleksandr Bastrykin and Russia’s Investigative Committee have been using torture to fabricate preposterous charges against Ukrainians since 2014, making his call for Putin to reinstate the death penalty chilling

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