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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Crimean Tatar sentenced to 18 years in Russian secret ‘trial’ where only torture is near certain

The only likely reason for holding Ruslan Mambetov incommunicado for over a month is that the FSB wanted to extract 'confessions' through torture in order to concoct yet another such 'treason' trial

From savage Russian repression to Crimean Solidarity

The gratuitously violent armed raids on 11 February 2016 prompted the emergence of the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement whose members Russia has been savagely persecuting ever since

Ukrainian seized in Crimea and sentenced to 12 years for donations to Ukraine's defenders

Roman Hryhorian is one of a mounting number of Ukrainians seized on occupied territory and charged with ‘treason’ for seeking to help Ukraine’s Armed Forces defend their country

Russia uses medical torture to fabricate its 'trial' of disabled 74-year-old Volodymyr Ananiev

Volodymyr Ananiev, who spent years helping Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians in Crimea is now Russia’s oldest Ukrainian political prisoner and one of three victims of the latest FSB-fabricated ‘Ukrainian saboteur plot’

Russian FSB carry out new terror raids and arrests by quota in occupied Crimea

The FSB prefer to get their ‘statistics’ by fighting whole families. First they came for Emir Kurtnezirov’s severely ill father, then for him, less than two months after he married the daughter and niece of four other Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Unending brutality against Crimean Tatar civic journalist sentenced to 15 years for reporting Russian repression

Eighty years after the Soviet regime executed Seiran Saliyev’s great grandfather for refusing to be cowered, Russia came up with chillingly similar claims against Saliev and other Crimean Solidarity journalists and activists

Over 1200 religious organizations closed or driven out of Russian-occupied Crimea

While Russia began its systematic attack on independent religious communities in Crimea in 2014, all of the same methods of repression and terror have now been extended to all parts of Ukraine under occupation

Russia imprisons at least 50 Crimean Tatars, other Ukrainians in revenge for Crimean civic blockade

Neither support for the legal blockade of illegally occupied Crimea, nor the Noman Çelebicihan Battalion’s ultimate objective, namely the end to Russian occupation, made its activities illegal, unlike those of the aggressor state in staging such ‘trials’

Huge sentences without a crime. 10 years of Russia’s conveyor belt of religious and political persecution in occupied Crimea

Russia's FSB forced ‘retrials’ of Crimean Tatar political prisoner Ruslan Zeytullaev to ensure the right paperwork. All of the terror and repression seen in Crimea is already or will soon be applied on all Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation.

Ukrainian political prisoner imprisoned for 10 years in Russia’s revenge for Euromaidan is 'released', yet not freed

Andriy Kolomiyets has served a 10-year sentence on legally absurd and politically motivated charges, and it is vital, perhaps with the help of a third country, that he is freed and not held indefinitely in a ‘deportation centre’

Two Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea sentenced to 6 years for studying the Bible online

The alleged proof that Viktor Kudinov and Serhiy Zhyhalov had ‘organized the activities of an extremist organization' was that they had thanked people for their responses to questions concerning their faith

Russia sentences young Sevastopol man to 11 years, claiming he emailed Ukraine’s Security Service

Kostiantyn Horlynchenko is the latest victim of the Russian FSB’s attempts to both terrorise the population in occupied Crimea and to claim ‘good statistics’ by fabricating ‘saboteur plots’