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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Prohibited remembrance of Crimean Tatar genocide and mounting terror in Russian occupied Crimea

Those who believe that Ukraine must accept Russia’s occupation of Crimea so that Putin can ‘save face’ should bear in mind the mounting persecution of Crimean Tatars including in areas recently invaded

Russia re-arrests the only Crimean Tatar political prisoner it ever acquitted

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov (Russia) has rearrested Ernes Ametov, almost two years after the Crimean Tatar civic journalist and Crimean Solidarity photographer was acquitted on identical charges by that same court

Russian FSB threaten to kill Ukrainian civic journalist and force her into signing blank ‘confessions’

Iryna Danilovych was held incommunicado for 12 days, with the first eight secretly held and placed under massive pressure by the Russian FSB in occupied Crimea

Monstrous sentences in Russia’s war against Crimean Tatar civic activists and their children

Five Crimean Tatar civic activists have been sentenced to 12 and 14 years’ imprisonment without any crime and solely on the basis of ‘anonymous witnesses’ who had probably never set eyes on them

Crimean Human Rights Group banned as ‘undesirable’ for reporting Russia's crimes in occupied Crimea

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has formally outlawed the vital Crimean Human Rights Group [CHRG], by declaring its activities “undesirable” in the Russian Federation and occupied Crimea

Russia intensifies persecution of Crimean Tatars on insane charges in Crimea and Kherson oblast

Since Russa began its total invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, it has intensified its persecution of Crimean Tatars, both in occupied Crimea, and in newly seized parts of the Kherson oblast

Civic journalist Iryna Danilovych disappears after being seized in Russian-occupied Crimea

Iryna Danilovych, a Ukrainian nurse and civic journalist reporting on medical issues in occupied Crimea, has disappeared after being seized by Russian-controlled enforcement officers on 29 April

Russia invades Crimea and sentences Ukrainian academic to almost 20 years for ‘treason’

The indictment remains a mystery, but must, of necessity, date back more than the five and a half years that 51-year-old Dmytro Shtyblikov has already spent in Russian custody

Russia resorts to undisguised fabrication for ‘trial’ of prominent Crimean Tatar journalist and Mejlis leader

Russia wants to sentence Nariman Dzhelyal, internationally renowned Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader, journalist and civic activist, to 15 or 20 years for a fictitious act of sabotage with the only ‘evidence’ provided by equally fictitious anonymous witnesses

Seven Jehovah’s Witnesses put on trial in Russian-occupied Crimea for studying the Bible

On 9 April 2022, a Russian court revoked the first and only acquittal of a Ukrainian believer since Russia’s ban of the Jehovah’s Witnesses five years ago and its illegal repression in occupied Crimea

Russia ‘sentences’ Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev for seeking to enter his native Crimea

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has found Mustafa Dzhemilev ‘guilty’ of three preposterous charges brought against the world-renowned Crimean Tatar leader and Ukrainian MP

Russia sentences Crimean Tatar to 17 years for solidarity with political prisoners

A court in Russia has sentenced Emil Ziyadinov to 17 years after a farcical ‘trial’ that made no pretence of trying to prove that the 37-year-old Crimean Solidarity civic activist had committed anything but ‘thought crimes’

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