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Crimean Tatar veteran activist faces 20 years in Russian prison for somebody else’s voice on a tape

Independent experts have confirmed that Azamat Eyupov’s voice is not on the taped conversation about religion and Russian persecution which Russia’s FSB is using as alleged grounds for a prison sentence of up to 20 years

Prominent Crimean Tatar jailed and fined for telling the truth about Russia’s war against Ukraine

Zair Smedlyaev had asked, after Russia's bombing of a maternity hospital, “How many more innocent civilians, women and new-born babies, must die for the world to begin distinguishing between genocide and God knows what special operations?”

Russia sentences two Crimean Tatars to 17 and 13 years for talking about their faith

A Russian ‘court’ has sentenced two Crimean Tatars active in the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement to 30 years’ imprisonment for conversations back in 2016 about their religious beliefs

Russia passes monstrous sentences on Crimean Solidarity human rights activists

A Russian ‘court’ notorious for conveyor belt ‘trials’ of Ukrainian political prisoners has passed 14- and 15-year sentences against five Crimean Tatars, all of them activists for the Crimean Solidarity human rights group

Russia imprisons Crimean Tatar human rights defender 'for a social media post from 2019'

Abdureshit Dzhepparov is a renowned veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement and human rights defender who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

Russia revokes sole acquittal of Crimean Tatar civic journalist and political prisoner

A Russian appeal court has revoked the sole acquittal of a Crimean political prisoner and upheld horrific sentences against seven other Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists

Russia targets entire families in its savage persecution of Crimean Tatars

All of the men in Fatma Ismailova’s family - her husband, Rustem Ismailov, her father Enver Omerov and brother Riza Omerov - have been sentenced, without any recognizable crime, to horrific sentences

Russia passes 19-year sentences against Crimean Tatar journalist and activists for defending human rights

A Russian court has sentenced journalist Remzi Bekirov and human rights activist Riza Izetov to 19 years’ imprisonment, with three other Crimean Tatar civic activists receiving only slightly shorter sentences.

Families and lawyers prevented from attending Russia’s reprisal sentencing of Crimean Tatar journalist and civic activists

Russian officials have illegally prevented lawyers and the families of journalist Remzi Bekirov and four other Crimean Tatar political prisoners from travelling to Rostov in Russia for the verdict in the men’s ‘trial’. 

Crimean Tatar disappears after Russia accuses him of ‘treason’ for Ukraine

Emil Emirov has not been seen since he was taken away, on 4 March, by the Russian FSB who claimed to suspect the Deputy Head of the Bakhchysarai branch of Crimean Telecom of ‘treason’ and ‘working for Ukraine’s Security Service'

Russia continues its first machine for destroying Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian families

While intensively bombing and killing Ukrainians, Russia is still finding time for the repression it has inflicted on those parts of Ukraine seized after its first invasion eight years ago.

Crimean Tatar Reshat Ametov, first savagely tortured victim of Russia’s war against Ukraine

If the bombing of Ukrainian cities by Russian invading forces is unprecedented, not so Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which began eight years ago

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