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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Russia upholds ‘foreign agent’ label and fines Lutfiye Zudiyeva for exposing its repression in occupied Crimea

The label, the prosecutions, Lutfiye told the occupation 'court' are aimed at forcing her to stop reporting on human rights violations, and this is something she cannot do in the face of such constant persecution and suffering

Crimean artist sentenced to 15 years for anti-war protest renounces foisted Russian citizenship

Bohdan Ziza felt unable to remain silent in the face of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and horrific war crimes. He has paid a huge price, but remains unbroken

Russia sentences Crimean Jehovah’s Witness to six years 'for reading religious texts'

This is the latest of 32 criminal prosecutions which Russia has brought to Crimea, in which men and women are accused solely of studying the Bible and of gathering with other believers

Russia revokes Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s citizenship, making deportation from occupied Crimea permanent

Having failed to terrorize Crimean Tatars into leaving occupied Crimea, Russia may now be planning to use fabricated criminal prosecutions.

Mass prosecutions and real sentences for pro-Ukrainian ‘thought crime’ in Russian-occupied Crimea

While Russian politicians and propagandists public incite to genocide against the Ukrainian people, Ukrainians in Crimea are increasingly hunted down for comments in support of Ukraine on social media

Open war against Crimean Tatars began long before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russia resorted to a new level of savagery and lawlessness in September 2021, with two young Crimean Tatars, Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, savagely tortured, and imprisoned to this day

War and ‘Russian world’ propaganda instead of learning foreign languages in schools in occupied Ukraine

Russia has already knocked out ‘defence of rights and liberties’, other ‘destructive western ideology’ and is seeking to brainwash children in occupied Ukraine that they should be ready to fight and die for Russia

Daily ‘treason trials’ expose Russia’s lies about mass support in occupied Crimea

The 'trial' of Serhiy Bodnarashyk was something of a record-maker for the swiftness of the sentence, but all such 'trials' are broadly identical in their secrecy and in the fact that convictions and long sentences are guaranteed

Russia is killing 70-year-old Halyna Dovhopola, sentenced to 12 years for loving Ukraine

Halyna earlier wrote that she and other political prisoners are waiting and “fighting for our life, so as to not “die in Russia” behind barbed wire”, She urgently needs our help

Crimean Tatar journalist and human rights defender faces new prosecution for reporting Russian repression

Russia's persecution of Lutfiye Zudiyeva began back in 2019 because the courageous Crimean Solidarity human rights defender refused to be silent about Russia's violations in occupied Crimea, The regime's new moves place her in even greater danger

Russia sentences young Crimean woman to 15 years after abducting and holding her incommunicado for ten months

This was more akin to an enforced disappearance, than an 'arrest', one of a terrifying number that Russia brought with its invasion of 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

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