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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia releases gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner after causing the death of several others

Lenur Khalilov should never have been imprisoned, and is likely to have been ill for a long time without any reaction

Russian court sentences young Crimean to 15 years for fictitious 'planned terrorist attack’

Alina Grek was first jailed for five days, purportedly over a video posted back in 2014 when she was just 15. This would not be the first time that the FSB then resorted to very serious charges if a person refused to be cowered

Russian FSB escalate abductions and terror against women in occupied Crimea

Three women who vanished in March 2024, as well as Tetiana Strifanova, whom the FSB abducted in February 2025 are being held incommunicado, without any legal status or charges having been laid

Mother and daughter sentenced to 12 years in Russia’s conveyor belt ‘treason trials’ in occupied Crimea

The blitzkrieg nature of the ‘trials’ of Victoria Strilets and her daughter Oleksandr, as well as of Oleksandr Osadchy, are typical of all such ‘trials’ where convictions and long sentences are guaranteed

Gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner suffers life-threatening hypertensive crisis in Russian prison

Amet Suleimanov’s life is being placed in danger as reprisal for his earlier journalist work in reporting on repression in occupied Crimea for the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement.

Crimean woman sentenced to 22 years for an invented ‘terrorist attack on a Russian military officer

The sentence against Nadiya Hrekova, who has two children, is of unprecedented ferocity, while the charges seem extremely implausible

Ukrainian political prisoner abducted and given a new sentence after 8 years in Russian prison

Hennadiy Lymeshko had been held incommunicado for six months, with the FSB typically using such isolation to torture its victims

Young Crimean couple could face life sentences for resistance to Russia's war against Ukraine

It is likely that Serhiy Kozlov and Yevhenia Samoilova were held incommunicado for over a year before charges were laid, with the only ‘crime’ that allegedly took place being a clear act of opposition to Russia’s war against Ukraine

Abducted Crimean Tatar father sentenced to 13 years for 'anti-Russian posts' and opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Ismail Shemshedinov’s infant daughter was just three months old when Russian FSB burst into their home and took Ismail away, hiding him until this latest of multiple sentences for supposed ‘treason’

Chilling escalation as Russia brings 'treason' charges against Crimean activist for pro-Ukrainian graffiti

Ksenia Svietlishyna, who has been imprisoned since 2023, could now face a 20-year sentence for affirming that Crimea is Ukraine

Crimean student refuses to 'repent' for the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar flags and the words Crimea is Ukraine

This was one of the countless occasions where Crimean SMERSH was used to hunt down Crimeans expressing support for Ukraine, but it did not go to plan, with Elnaz Charukhova refusing to give the standard 'videoed apology'

Ukrainian political prisoner issues urgent appeal over ‘Gestapo-like’ treatment in Russian women’s prison

Iryna Danilovych, whose appeal conceals all of the prisoners, is herself a victim of Russian lawlessness in occupied Crimea, imprisoned for her human rights work and civic journalism