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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Abducted and tortured Ukrainian naval captain declares hunger strike in Russian captivity

Oleksiy Kiselyov, former commander of the Ukrainian Navy’s Slavutych Command Ship, has gone on hunger strike in the Simferopol SIZO [remand prison] where Russia is illegally holding him prisoner

Call for Russia to be expelled from INTERPOL after Ukrainian journalist detained in Turkey

The incident is of serious concern given Interpol's failure to notice the evident political motives behind Russia’s wish to get Gulsum Khalilova extradited and imprisoned

Young Crimean sentenced to 3 years after ‘confession’ almost certainly extracted through torture

There is almost certainly no evidence against Aziz Faizullaev aside from a videoed 'confession' which was obtained while the 25-year-old was held without access to a lawyer

Staggering lawlessness in Russia’s persecution of a Crimean Tatar from mainland Ukraine

A Russian occupation ‘court’ in Simferopol has sentenced Rustem Gugurik to eight and a half years’ imprisonment on absurd chances

Ukrainian in occupied Crimea gets harsh prison sentence for calling Russian Guard officer a war criminal and child killer

Oleksandr Tarapanov has become the first Ukrainian in Russian-occupied Crimea to receive a prison sentence on criminal charges which Russia hastily adopted in March to try to silence protest over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russia abducts Crimean Tatar from mainland Ukraine and ‘sentences’ him in puppet trial in occupied Crimea

The charges against 33-year-old Artur Memetshaev are as lawless as his abduction,

Crimean Tatar pensioner detained for calling Russia a fascist state on Facebook

67-year-old Asiye Chapukh was taken away and later prosecuted on charges, among others, of 'discrediting the Russian armed forces'

20-year-old Crimean Tatar ‘arrested’ on grotesque charges three months after Russian occupiers abducted him

It is very likely that Appaz Kurtamet was subjected to torture during the months in which he was held incommunicado

Russia sentences three Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses to six years for 'threatening state security' by discussing the Bible

It was claimed that, by reading and discussing religious literature, the defendants had “committed a grave crime against the constitutional order and the security of the state”.

Crimea beauty queen convicted of ‘discrediting Russia's Armed Forces' by singing a Ukrainian patriotic song’

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has fined this year’s ‘Miss Crimea’ and jailed her friend for singing the Ukrainian patriotic song ‘Chervona Kalyna’ [‘Red Kalyna, or Vibernum’].

EU countries turn back Crimean Tatars fleeing forced mobilization to fight Russia's war against Ukraine

A tragedy is unfolding in countries bordering the Russian Federation and Belarus with Crimean Tatars yet again in particular danger

Russian occupation means 14-year sentences for being Ukrainian and refusing to ‘confess’ to insane charges

Russia’s claim that almost all Ukrainians in occupied Donbas, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts ‘voted’ for annexation is not only grotesque because of the carnage and destruction Russia has brought since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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