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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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70-year-old Crimean Jehovah’s Witness convicted of ‘organizing an extremist organization’ for practising her faith

“Real freedom is not the place you are in, but the presence of truth inside you”  Tamara Bratseva stated during her ‘trial’ in response to the prosecutor’s demand of a real 6-year sentence

From 17-year sentence to death in Russian captivity for Crimean Tatar political prisoner accused of another person’s voice on a tape?

Russia’s FSB targeted Azamat Eyupov, veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement, for his peaceful protest against Russian repression, with nothing allowed to prevent a 17-year sentence

Imprisoned Ukrainian marine biologist charged with ‘treason’ for opposing Russia’s plans in Antarctic area

Russia is openly persecuting 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov for remaining loyal to Ukraine and for seeking to protect marine resources and diversity in the Southern Ocean. Without robust international attention, he faces a 12-20-year sentence

Russian court orders rearrest and 17-year sentence against blind and disabled Crimean political prisoner

Russia’s prosecutor has confirmed that even blindness and Russian legislation envisaging Oleksandr Sizikov’s release are no impediment where Russia’s persecution of Crimean political prisoners is concerned

Menacing threats against human rights defender Lutfiye Zudiyeva after Russia’s arrests of four Crimean Tatar women

Russia is demonstratively showing that nobody is safe from persecution and terror in occupied Crimea and silence from the international community only increases the danger for those, like Lutfiye Zudiyeva, unwilling to be silenced

Courageous protest and disturbing silence over terrifying Russian attack on Crimean Tatar women

International protest is vital with Russia clearly sending a message that nobody is safe from being seized in armed raids and imprisoned for decades without any crime

Four Crimean Tatar women could face 20-year sentences in new wave of Russian terror in occupied Crimea

This is a terrifying escalation in Russian repression, with Russia now targeting women, including mothers and very young students

Crimean Tatar political prisoner rearrested to die in Russian captivity after release because of cancer

Russia has demonstrated contempt for its own laws, by so dooming Lenur Khalilov to die a painful death in the inhuman conditions of a Russian prison, thousands of kilometres from his family

Russia sentences abducted Crimean to 15 years in second secret ‘trial’ on same absurd charges

Had there been grounds for charging Serhiy Lykhomanov with ‘treason’ and ‘terrorism’, the FSB would not have held him incommunicado, without a lawyer, for almost two years and staged two ‘trials’

From enforced disappearance to imprisonment: Anatoliy Kobzar found after 19 months of Russian lies

Russia’s methods in occupied Crimea are becoming ever more brazenly lawless, however the FSB’s abduction of Anatoliy Kobzar and silence for close on 2 years is particularly shocking

Russia uses citizenship as a new weapon against dissidents in occupied Crimea

Russia’s stripping of citizenship was first used in Soviet times, but is now even more cynical, as an invading power is banning Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians from their own homeland

Russians imprison two Crimean Tatar brothers on lawless charges, and move into one of their homes

Russian prisons and the failure to provide medical care have taken a huge toll on 54-year-old Rustem Gugurik’s health, and, almost certainly, on his 62-year-old brother Bekir, whom Russia is hiding

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