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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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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

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 Shtrifanova, 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 Oleksandra, 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.

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