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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Russia passes record 20-year sentence in revenge for Crimean Solidarity human rights defence

This is the worst sentence to date against a Crimean Tatar political prisoner and comes as Russia is increasingly releasing men convicted of real crimes, if they agree to fight in Ukraine

Terror and videoed ‘repentance’ for supporting Ukraine in Russian-occupied Crimea

A 54-year-old woman from Sevastopol is just the latest of many Ukrainians forced to ‘repent’ on camera for saying ‘Glory to Ukraine’, flying the Ukrainian flag, correctly reporting Russia’s killing of civilians, etc

Former Crimean Tatar Mejlis official abducted and tortured, then imprisoned on absurd charges in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s latest abduction, torture and imprisonment of Crimean Tatar Eldar Mensitov came just days after it faced questioning over its racial discrimination before the International Court of Justice at the Hague.

Crimean artist sentenced to 15 years for protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine

Bohdan Ziza was charged with ‘terrorism’ although he had called for peace, not killings, and would probably not now be imprisoned at all had he not protest against Russia’s constant murdering of innocent civilians.

Arrested for protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine, sentenced to 10 years for ‘sabotage’

The emergence of ‘sabotage’ charges long after Ihor Kupich was arrested is just one of many reasons for deep scepticism about his ‘trial’

New charges against 64-year-old Oleh Prykhodko, imprisoned for opposing Russia’s occupation of Crimea

After openly fabricating absurd charges against Oleh Prykhodko back in 2019, Russia is now preparing new charges in order to imprison him for even longer

Russia sentences four Crimean Tatar civic activists to 53 years for ‘dissident views’

Seven years for murder in Russian-occupied Crimea, 17 years for practising your faith and showing solidarity with Russia's ever-mounting number of political prisoners

Russia sentences human rights defender to 14 years for helping political prisoners seek justice from ECHR

Russia has reached “a new level of lawlessness” with its imprisonment of human rights defender Bakhrom Khamroev, with sinister methods that could well be used in occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar human rights defender charged with 'discrediting' the Russian invaders on Facebook

Abdureshit Dzhepparov is accused of ‘discrediting the Russian armed forces’ over material that had nothing to do with him, as well as with ‘abusing freedom of mass information’ in occupied Crimea where Russia has eliminated all such freedom

Sharp increase in persecution for pro-Ukrainian position in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian occupation 'courts' are willing to convict Ukrainians of 'discrediting the Russian army' over the Ukrainian national anthem or flag, songs, or the phrase 'a peaceful sky above our head'

Russia effectively sentences veteran Crimean Tatar activist to death for somebody else’s voice on a tape

A second Russian court has found no problem in passing an effective death sentence, without any crime and without the defendant’s voice even on the tape of an innocuous conversation presented as ‘evidence’ against him

Crimean Tatar activist sentenced to 18 years for discussing religion and Russian repression

Only Moscow wins when the horrific sentences passed against innocent men, like Ernes Seitosmanov pass without adequate protest

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