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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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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

Russian FSB abduct Crimean couple, place their child in care

Russia’s abductions in occupied Crimea are becoming chillingly lawless and brutal, with children left deeply traumatized

Crimean abducted by Russian FSB after returning to see her dying mother sentenced to 17 years for a donation

It is already profoundly cynical to accuse a Ukrainian of ‘treason’ for supporting Ukrainian defenders, but even more shocking when the victim, Liudmyla Kolesnikova was there for her mother’s funeral

Russian FSB holds abducted 62-year-old Crimean woman incommunicado for almost four months without vital medication

Russia brought enforced disappearances and political persecution to occupied Crimea with the distinction often very fine. It is now increasingly targeting women who face massive sentences on totally secret charges

Bitter frustration over Russia’s (non) release of Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages

Whether or not Moscow was deliberately trying to sow discontent in Ukraine, its failure to release political prisoners whose life is in danger and others illegally imprisoned for years was brutal

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