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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Poland detains Russian archaeologist wanted in Ukraine for illegal excavations in occupied Crimea

Ukraine has 40 days to prepare its extradition request with Alexander Butyagin the first Russian to be detained over ongoing and often irreparable damage to places of Crimean Tatar and / or Ukrainian cultural heritage

Abducted Crimean Tatar mother of two sentenced to 15 years on Russia's cynical ‘treason’ charges

Niyara Ersmambetova has a 16-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter who have been left with their grandfather, who is 70 and has Grade II disability status

Crimean Tatar political prisoner Tofik Abdulgaziev diagnosed with a brain tumour

Russia passed huge sentences against Tofik Abdulgaziev and 24 other Crimean Tatars for their human rights activities. It is directly responsible for Tofik's tuberculosis and other conditions and should, on those grounds, have released him long ago

Russian FSB carry out armed 'inspection' of Crimean Tatar journalist's home, take her away for interrogation

This act of intimidation was one of the increasingly aggressive methods that Russia has used against journalists and civic activists in occupied Crimea

Monstrous sentences against Crimean Tatar journalist and activists seized in Russian retaliation for a humiliating attack by Ukraine

Sentences of up to 19 years were passed despite the only verifiable ‘evidence’ being an innocuous conversation about Muslim daily prayers seven years earlier

74-year-old Crimean Tatar historian detained and prosecuted over interview about the 1944 Deportation

The uncle of three political prisoners is facing prosecution over the entirely accurate comment that the perpetrators of Soviet crimes were not held to account

Russian FSB come for Crimean Tatar father and son in night terror raid

Russia is increasingly targeting two or more members of the same family for its abductions and politically motivated 'trials', with it very likely that 65-year-old Seithalil and his son, Ruslan, are facing torture to extract fake 'confessions'

Dangerously ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner ‘not allowed’ life-saving medication

Fears that Russia’s withdrawal from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture would remove any last restraints were probably justified judging by its life-threatening medical torture of Amet Suleimanov

Crimean woman sentenced to 5.5 years for social media criticism of Russia's war against Ukraine

Although Kateryna Fomenko was charged with 'circulating military fakes', all of the comments first used for administrative prosecutions were critical of Russia's war of aggression, but in no way false

Sentenced to die in immense pain for religious independence in Russian-occupied Crimea

Lenur Khalilov is gravely ill and Russia’s rearrest is both a death sentence in his case and a clear indication that even Russian legislation will not apply in the case of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

Russian FSB uses propaganda and hate speech to justify its terror against Crimean Tatar women

The FSB’s press service is complicit, as are other main players, in fabricating absurd charges carrying monstrous sentences

Young Crimean mother of two abducted by the FSB and held incommunicado for over a year

No charges have been laid against Sakha Manhubi, with the FSB not even admitting that she is in their custody, with the young woman one of an ever-increasing number of women being targeted in occupied Crimea

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