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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’

Russian invaders raid Kherson oblast home of member of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis and former political prisoner

Russia has demonstrated yet again the repression that Crimean Tatars in particular, but all Ukrainians can expect in any Ukrainian territory that falls under Russian occupation

Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s child told by Russian officer that they’ll come back for him – and they have

Amar was just 14 when the Russian FSB came for his father, Tofik Abdulgaziev, and 22 other Crimean Tatar civic journalists or activists

New Russian terror against Crimean Tatar civic activist and his family

Yet another Crimean Tatar civic activist is facing serious charges for a social media post after being seized by Russian enforcement officers on 6 April and held incommunicado from early morning until late in the evening.

Russian invaders imprison Crimean Tatar from Kherson oblast on surreal charges

Russia’s FSB has arrested Rustem Gugurik, a taxi driver from Novooleksiivka (Kherson oblast), and accused him of involvement, while in mainland Ukraine, in an organization which is totally legal in Ukraine

Final brutality in Russia’s revenge imprisonment of renowned Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyal

It is every Crimean Tatar son’s duty, when the time comes, to bid a fitting farewell to his parents, yet a Russian-controlled court in Crimea has refused to allow political prisoner Nariman Dzhelyal to attend the funeral of his father, Enver Dzhelyal.

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

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