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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Even Russian prison service asks to release blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Sizikov

Russia’s FSB, prosecutors and ‘judges’ were willing to sentence Sizikov to 17 years and send him to Siberia for speaking out about repression in occupied Crimea

Russia’s selective ‘terrorism’ in war against Ukraine and in fraternizing with the Taliban

Moscow’s rapprochement with the Taliban coincides with its sharp escalation in fabricated ‘terrorism’ charges against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners and POWs

Chilling silence 13 months after enforced disappearance of Crimean Anatoliy Kobzar

It is likely that 45-year-old Anatoliy Kobzar was targeted because of his pro-Ukrainian views, with the FSB holding him incommunicado and probably tortured while they fabricate charges

Russia seeks effective death sentence against 69-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner and horrific sentences against five others

Both Khalil Mambetov and his wife had serious health issues even before Russia's FSB ignored his age and charged him with 'violently planning to overthrow the regime with words and books

Russian occupiers terrorize and threaten wife of Crimean political prisoner Vadim Siruk

"The real terrorists are those who burst into the homes of people peacefully sleeping, who intimidate people who tell the truth; and who imprison people for their political and religious views.” - Vadim Siruk

Entire Ukrainian family seized in latest Russian terror in occupied Crimea

The fact that the FSB concealed the whereabouts of Tetiana Maliar, her brother and adult son and daughter for a week after they were taken away is likely to mean that they were subjected to torture

Crimean sentenced to 15 years for donation to rescue children from Russian-occupied territory

30-year-old Vladyslav Afanasiev has been denied contact with his family and healthcare since his ‘arrest’ in the summer of 2024 on surreal ‘treason’ charges

Halyna Dovhopola turns 70, imprisoned in Russia for remaining true to Ukraine in occupied Crimea

It is very likely that Russia’s FSB came for Halyna because she had never concealed her opposition to Russia’s invasion of Crimea

Russia’s most savage sentence yet against 66-year-old Ukrainian woman from occupied Crimea

The indictment seems copied verbatim from other such fabricated ‘trials’ of Ukrainians, but this time Russia is planning to imprison Nina Tymoshenko until she is 82

Russians take away elderly Crimean Tatar veteran’s trailer where he lived after they demolished his home

Russia’s action in razing Rustem Useinov’s home to the ground was described in 2021 as a war crime. Now the same occupiers have taken away the 70-year-old’s trailer, his medicines and other items

Kremlin celebrates as Trump administration cuts key source of information about Russia’s crimes in occupied Ukraine

The Trump administration appears bent on silencing Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, something Moscow tried but failed to achieve and that will only help escalate its repression and crimes in occupied Ukraine

Unending punitive psychiatry against tortured Crimean Tatar human rights activist

Yunus Masharipov was almost certainly targeted and tortured back in 2018 by Russia’s FSB for his human rights monitoring in occupied Yalta. His unwavering demand for justice has resulted in indefinite imprisonment in a ‘psychiatric hospital’