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Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
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Court frees blind and disabled Crimean political prisoner sentenced to 17 years for protest over Russian repression

Oleksandr Sizikov's release is a welcome first, except that he should never have been arrested, nor had to endure the torment of the past five years

Server Mustafayev, renowned Crimean Tatar political prisoner, receives Freedom House award for exemplary courage

Server Mustafayev “chose not to be silent” about Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea. Russia’s vengeance against him and other Crimean Solidarity journalists has been savage

Russia escalates persecution, labelling renowned Crimean Tatar journalist and human rights defender a ‘foreign agent’

This is the latest of several attacks on Lutfiye Zudiyeva and clearly aimed at silencing the courageous Crimean Solidarity coordinator, whose male colleagues have ended up receiving massive sentences for refusing to be stifled

Russia rubberstamps 15-year ‘treason’ sentence against 58-year-old Crimean activist Oksana Senedzhuk

It is extremely likely that Oksana Senedzhuk was targeted because of her pro-Ukrainian position and open opposition to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine

Russia threatens Crimean Tatar political prisoners with deportation to Uzbekistan

The move would be cynical and lawless, however Russia has already forcibly deported one human rights activist. They also killed recognized refugee Nabi Rahimov and then sent his wife back to Uzbekistan where she faced religious persecution

19-year sentence for Crimean Solidarity journalism not enough – Russia steps up persecution of Remzi Bekirov

Russia used religious faith as pretext for massive sentences against Remzi Bekirov and 24 other Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists and is now weaponizing it again to make his life even more difficult in Russian prison

Certain death warrant as six Crimean Tatar activists sentenced to 14 years ‘for refusing to be silent’ about Russian repression

14 years for discussing daily prayers and other aspects of the men’s faith – and for refusing to remain silent about Russia’s lawless repression in 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

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