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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Russia imprisons at least 50 Crimean Tatars, other Ukrainians in revenge for Crimean civic blockade

Neither support for the legal blockade of illegally occupied Crimea, nor the Noman Çelebicihan Battalion’s ultimate objective, namely the end to Russian occupation, made its activities illegal, unlike those of the aggressor state in staging such ‘trials’

Huge sentences without a crime. 10 years of Russia’s conveyor belt of religious and political persecution in occupied Crimea

Russia's FSB forced ‘retrials’ of Crimean Tatar political prisoner Ruslan Zeytullaev to ensure the right paperwork. All of the terror and repression seen in Crimea is already or will soon be applied on all Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation.

Ukrainian political prisoner imprisoned for 10 years in Russia’s revenge for Euromaidan is 'released', yet not freed

Andriy Kolomiyets has served a 10-year sentence on legally absurd and politically motivated charges, and it is vital, perhaps with the help of a third country, that he is freed and not held indefinitely in a ‘deportation centre’

Two Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea sentenced to 6 years for studying the Bible online

The alleged proof that Viktor Kudinov and Serhiy Zhyhalov had ‘organized the activities of an extremist organization' was that they had thanked people for their responses to questions concerning their faith

Russia sentences young Sevastopol man to 11 years, claiming he emailed Ukraine’s Security Service

Kostiantyn Horlynchenko is the latest victim of the Russian FSB’s attempts to both terrorise the population in occupied Crimea and to claim ‘good statistics’ by fabricating ‘saboteur plots’

Crimean Tatar sentenced by Russia to 19 years for ‘religious dissidence’ hurled into punishment cell for prayer

This was near certainly a targeted attack on Muslim Aliev, an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience and fellow Crimean Tatar political prisoner Teymur Abdullayev

58-year-old Sevastopol activist sentenced to 15 years for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia has, as always, concealed virtually everything about its fast-track ‘treason trial’ against Oksana Senedzhuk, but there is every reason to believe that the charges and horrific sentence are politically motivated

Mustafa Dzhemilev: Russia’s occupation of Crimea spells the death of the Crimean Tatar people and forced exile

Russia would almost certainly use any 'peace deal' as opportunity to prepare for further aggression, while Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians under Russian occupation would continue to endure mounting terror and repression

Same fake ‘secret witness’ used in multiple Russian ‘trials’ of Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists

Crimean Solidarity journalist Rustem Osmanov and three civic activists are facing huge sentences without any crime on the basis of a ‘secret witness’ already used by the FSB for huge sentences in over ten other cases

Russia confirms revenge sentences against savagely tortured Crimean Tatar cousins, seized with Nariman Dzhelyal

All of the perpetrators need to be identified and punished for their role in this horrific travesty of justice against Asan Akhtemov and his cousin, Aziz Akhtemov

Duma broadens ‘treason’ charges against anybody opposing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

Russian legislators have dangerously broadened the definition of charges standardly used against Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages, while also extending the range of targets

Legislators equate criticism of Russia's war against Ukraine with ‘terrorism and extremism’

A new law just passed has handed Russia’s FSB yet another “powerful weapon of persecution” against those who tell the truth about Russia’s war crimes and about Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation

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