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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Mounting terror in occupied Crimea as FSB openly hide abducted Ukrainians while probably torturing out ‘confessions’

It is likely that Serhiy Hryshchenkov and many others are held without any official status to make it easier for the FSB to fabricate charges through torture and threats

Russian FSB given chilling new weapon of repression against Ukrainian political prisoners

Up till now, Russia’s FSB have generally confined their most horrific torture to before their victim was formally charged and remanded in custody. That is likely to change with the dangerous new powers which Russian legislators have given them

Planted ‘extremist’ literature and prohibitive fine used to crush independent Muslim community in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia distrusts any independent religious communities, with it, unfortunately, abetted in this by the Moscow-collaborating mufti of Crimea and his people

Russia sentences Sevastopol man to 17 years amid massive increase in surreal ‘treason trials'

With the ‘trial’ of Vadym Sorokoletnov, and a huge number of other Ukrainians, held behind closed doors, the only certainty is, tragically, that they will end in ‘conviction’ and a long sentence

Political prisoner Andriy Kolomiyets still trapped in Russia after serving all of a 10-year sentence in revenge for Maidan

Andriy was subjected to savage torture and imprisoned on insane charges for ten years, yet is still effectively held in Russia, with other Ukrainians facing the same problems

No mercy to the end in Russia’s brutal reprisals against Ivan Yatskin and his family in occupied Crimea

Ukrainian political prisoner Ivan Yatskin, who is serving an 11-year sentence for opposing Russia’s occupation of Crimea, has been forced to learn of his mother’s death by telephone while imprisoned four thousand kilometres from his family

Prosecution witness confirms lack of any grounds for Russia’s 'terrorism' charges against Crimean Tatar civic activists

The testimony from a former employee of the Crimean Muftiate totally rejected the surreal and immensely cynical ‘terrorism’ charges which Russia is using to crush the Crimean Tatar human rights movement

Crimean sentenced to 17 years ‘for planning to blow up a Russian military helicopter’

While impossible to verify the information, the charges against Serhiy Kucherenko, the videoed ‘confession’ and many implausible details must raise doubts about this latest 'thwarted terrorist attack trial'

New legislation formalizes Russia’s brutal isolation of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

The new provisions are draconian, however Russia’s treatment of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners and POWs has always been savage, with or without norms

New attack on independent Muslim community in Russian-occupied Crimea

The charges against Idris Yurdamov, Head of the Eskir Qirim Muslim community pertain to 'prohibited literature' which the community could have nothing to do with following earlier persecution

6-year sentences for prayer amid Russia’s mounting persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in occupied Crimea

It is becoming difficult to keep up with the new armed searches and insane criminal charges, with it a question of time before Russia extends such religious persecution to other Ukrainian territory under its occupation

Huge sentences demanded in Russia’s reprisal for humiliation over Ukrainian attack on military airbase

Five Crimean Tatars face sentences of 11-17 years, one of them a likely death sentence, with the pretext for ‘terrorism’ charges a conversation about prayer which the FSB had illicitly taped seven years earlier