Menu
Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
All 469 Events 22
Mass ‘treason’ trials and huge sentences for helping Ukraine in Russian-occupied Crimea

The fact that Lenur Ibragimov may have earlier faced prosecution for peaceful civic activism, and that one of the ‘accusations’ against Vladyslav Afanasiev was of having donated to Ukraine’s Army only exacerbate concerns about such ‘trials’

Blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner taken to Russia for lawless 17-year sentence

All Russia's sentences against Crimean Muslims who have committed no crime are savage, but here they have brought insane 'terrorism' charges and are imposing a 17-year sentence against a man who cannot see and needs help to move around

Young Crimean sentenced to 16 years for circulating video on resistance to Russian occupation

26-year-old Eldar Abduraimov had circulated a video about the ATESH partisan movement which arose in 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russian court blocks Crimean Tatar political prisoners from ‘dragging out the trial’ by challenging fake prosecution witness

Russian ‘judge’ Roman Saprunov could not have stated more openly that the sentences against six Crimean Tatar civic activists are predetermined, with fake evidence not a problem

Long sentences against Ukrainians tortured into confessing to fake Crimean assassination plot

Oleksandr Lytvyenko and Kostiantyn Yevmenenko are among ten victims of just one of countless ‘Crimean saboteur’ cases which Russia’s FSB has been fabricating since 2014

Second Russian death sentence for a conversation? Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s health sharply deteriorates

Despite Servet Gaziev’s age (64), recent micro stroke and other serious health issues, Russia is continuing its torment of the Crimean Tatar political prisoner sentenced to 13 years for his defence of other victims of repression

Chilling echoes as Russian FSB abduct Chief Editor of Crimean Tatar children’s magazine

The disappearance of 61-year-old Ediye Muslimova came soon after a sustained attack on another Crimean Tatar publication and after all too many abductions in occupied Crimea, some of the victims of which vanished without trace

Solidarity needed with Ukrainian artist sentenced to 15 years for protesting Russia’s war against Ukraine

“Any person who fails to speak out against this war, who does nothing to stop it, is a passive accomplice to this terrible crime committed by the Russian regime”   Bohdan Ziza in a letter from a Russian prison

One-year prison sentence in Russian-occupied Crimea for the words ‘Glory to Ukraine’

The 'trial' and sentence against Dmytro Yezhov is one of a huge number where Ukrainians have been ‘convicted of discrediting’ Russia’s armed forces merely by expressing pro-Ukrainian views

Crimean Tatar Mejlis: No ‘peace deals’ with Russia without Crimea as part of Ukraine

Crimea is Ukraine, the Mejlis stresses, and any territorial concessions to Russia will only whet Moscow’s appetite for more

Russia cancels sentence against Crimean Tatar political prisoner after torturing him to death

60-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov should never have been imprisoned, yet even the military court of appeal had earlier been too craven to revoke a politically motivated sentence that could no longer be served

Crimean Tatar lawyer jailed in Russian terror against defenders of political prisoners

It is typical that the Facebook repost used as pretext for the attack on Rustem Kyamilev and Lilia Hemedzhy, and for terrorizing their children, was in support of Ukrainian political prisoner Oleh Prykhodko

1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  » ... 40