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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Oksana Senedzhuk sent to Siberia for Russia’s 15-year sentence in reprisal for pro-Ukrainian stand

After years of interrogations and searches because of her pro-Ukrainian views, Russia came up with a ‘treason trial’ and imprisonment in a Siberian camp, thousands of kilometres from her family

Russia foists state-controlled 'MAX' app on occupied Ukraine with terrifying powers for surveillance

IT experts warn that the installation of MAX is equivalent to voluntarily passing your telephone into the total control of the security service

New trial ordered after glaring legal flaw exposed in Russia’s persecution of Crimean Tatar journalists & activists

Russian courts have demonstrated total contempt for international law and the right to a fair trial. The violation of Russian legislation in all of these politically motivated ‘trials’ is, at least, harder to flagrantly ignore

Crimean sentenced to 17 years for Russia’s latest ‘thwarted Ukrainian sabotage plot’

Very little is known about 59-year-old Mykola Davydchenko and his ‘trial’. Enough, however, for the case to seem suspiciously similar to others of the Russian FSB genre

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