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Young Crimean Tatar mother faces possible prison sentence for not denouncing another Ukrainian to the Russian FSB

25-year-old Emine Zekeryaeva could face a prison sentence for ‘failing to report’ a social media conversation she had no reason to see as ‘criminal’

Armed raid and jail in Russian occupied Crimea for posting songs in support of Ukraine

The aim of these stunts is to terrorize Ukrainians on occupied territory and to try to silence any protest against Russia’s war of aggression

Court in Russia reduces charge against Crimean Tatar political prisoner but retains appalling sentence

The sentence against Ernes Seitosmanov should have been overturned altogether, but this was a political trial, and the ‘judges’ lacked the courage to do more than make a minimal reduction

Ukrainian jailed for a year in occupied Crimea for 'discrediting Russia's army'

Dmytro Kozlia has been imprisoned since July 2023, after being violently detained over comments deemed to ‘discredit the Russian armed forces’

Russia stages new 'trial' to increase sentence against 64-year-old Ukrainian imprisoned for affirming that Crimea is Ukraine

Oleh Prykhodko is currently imprisoned for his condemnation of Russia’s invasion and occupation of Crimea and could be facing a further long term of imprisonment

Fake ‘secret witness’ exposed in Russia’s politically timed persecution of Crimean Solidarity journalist and other Crimean Tatars

Six Crimean Tatars were arrested on entirely different charges, but immediately after Russia suffered a humilating attack on a military airbase in occupied Crimea

Crimean artist Bohdan Ziza's 15-year ‘terrorism’ sentence for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Bohdan Ziza has been described as “a symbol of pro-Ukrainian protest in occupied Crimea”, with Russia’s use of ‘terrorism’ charges in reprisal for his courage and refusal to be cowered into silence

Russia opens third prison in occupied Crimea to hold political prisoners and civilian hostages abducted from mainland Ukraine

Russia is continuing to seize and torture civilians in all parts of Ukraine that fall under its occupation, with many hostages held for over a year without any charges being laid

Russia seeks to strip a fourth lawyer of his licence after jailing him for defending Ukrainian political prisoners

Independent lawyers have long been 'the enemy' of the Russian occupation regime for their determination to properly defend political prisoners and Ukrainians abducted from parts of mainland Ukraine temporarily under Russian occupation

Prominent lawyer defending Ukrainian political prisoners jailed in Russian-occupied Crimea

This is the latest in a number of attacks against courageous lawyers who are not afraid to represent Russia’s Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

Russia sentences Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses to long terms of imprisonment for refusing to renounce their faith

It was claimed that Volodymyr Maladyka, Volodymyr Sakada and Yevhen Zhukov 'had committed a grave crime against the constitutional order and the security of the state” by practising their faith

Imprisoned Ukrainian civic journalist Iryna Danilovych may have suffered a stroke due to Russian medical torture

Iryna Danilovich is in urgent need of medical care and the failure to provide it is the latest crime against the nurse, civic journalist and human rights defender in revenge for her courageous position

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