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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Chilling escalation as Russia brings 'treason' charges against Crimean activist for pro-Ukrainian graffiti

Ksenia Svietlishyna, who has been imprisoned since 2023, could now face a 20-year sentence for affirming that Crimea is Ukraine

Crimean student refuses to 'repent' for the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar flags and the words Crimea is Ukraine

This was one of the countless occasions where Crimean SMERSH was used to hunt down Crimeans expressing support for Ukraine, but it did not go to plan, with Elnaz Charukhova refusing to give the standard 'videoed apology'

Ukrainian political prisoner issues urgent appeal over ‘Gestapo-like’ treatment in Russian women’s prison

Iryna Danilovych, whose appeal conceals all of the prisoners, is herself a victim of Russian lawlessness in occupied Crimea, imprisoned for her human rights work and civic journalism

Russian FSB concocts 'terrorism' charges two months after abducting 24-year-old Crimean Tatar woman

24-year-old Khatidzhe Buyukhchan was held incommunicado, without any charges laid, for 69 days, with the FSB doubtless using this time to torture or otherwise force the young woman to ‘confess’ to whatever they demanded

Mounting terror in occupied Crimea as FSB openly hide abducted Ukrainians while probably torturing out ‘confessions’

It is likely that Serhiy Hryshchenkov and many others are held without any official status to make it easier for the FSB to fabricate charges through torture and threats

Russian FSB given chilling new weapon of repression against Ukrainian political prisoners

Up till now, Russia’s FSB have generally confined their most horrific torture to before their victim was formally charged and remanded in custody. That is likely to change with the dangerous new powers which Russian legislators have given them

Planted ‘extremist’ literature and prohibitive fine used to crush independent Muslim community in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia distrusts any independent religious communities, with it, unfortunately, abetted in this by the Moscow-collaborating mufti of Crimea and his people

Russia sentences Sevastopol man to 17 years amid massive increase in surreal ‘treason trials'

With the ‘trial’ of Vadym Sorokoletnov, and a huge number of other Ukrainians, held behind closed doors, the only certainty is, tragically, that they will end in ‘conviction’ and a long sentence

Political prisoner Andriy Kolomiyets still trapped in Russia after serving all of a 10-year sentence in revenge for Maidan

Andriy was subjected to savage torture and imprisoned on insane charges for ten years, yet is still effectively held in Russia, with other Ukrainians facing the same problems

No mercy to the end in Russia’s brutal reprisals against Ivan Yatskin and his family in occupied Crimea

Ukrainian political prisoner Ivan Yatskin, who is serving an 11-year sentence for opposing Russia’s occupation of Crimea, has been forced to learn of his mother’s death by telephone while imprisoned four thousand kilometres from his family

Prosecution witness confirms lack of any grounds for Russia’s 'terrorism' charges against Crimean Tatar civic activists

The testimony from a former employee of the Crimean Muftiate totally rejected the surreal and immensely cynical ‘terrorism’ charges which Russia is using to crush the Crimean Tatar human rights movement

Crimean sentenced to 17 years ‘for planning to blow up a Russian military helicopter’

While impossible to verify the information, the charges against Serhiy Kucherenko, the videoed ‘confession’ and many implausible details must raise doubts about this latest 'thwarted terrorist attack trial'

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