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EU countries turn back Crimean Tatars fleeing forced mobilization to fight Russia's war against Ukraine

A tragedy is unfolding in countries bordering the Russian Federation and Belarus with Crimean Tatars yet again in particular danger

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Dead souls and infants ‘voted’ in Russia’s sham ‘referendums’ on annexing Ukrainian territory

In occupied parts of both the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, the alleged number of people who ‘voted’ in Russia’s sham ‘referendums’ on annexation far exceeded the actual number of residents

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian occupation means 14-year sentences for being Ukrainian and refusing to ‘confess’ to insane charges

Russia’s claim that almost all Ukrainians in occupied Donbas, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts ‘voted’ for annexation is not only grotesque because of the carnage and destruction Russia has brought since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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Mutilated bodies in Izium mass graves and other atrocities after Russian invaders driven out

While Russia stages its sham ‘referendums’ to claim local support for it annexing occupied parts of Ukraine, investigators are continuing to uncover evidence of Russian crimes in those parts of the Kharkiv oblast which were liberated in early September.

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After destroying Mariupol, Russia claims its residents 'voted' for annexation and mobilizes them to fight Ukraine

Russia has not even waited for ‘voting’ to end in its sham ‘referendum’ to claim huge ‘support’ for joining Russia and to begin ‘mobilizing’ Ukrainians from occupied Mariupol to fight and die its war of aggression against Ukraine

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From a Zwastika to "No to the War". Anti-war activities in Russia, 9-18 September

A large letter “Z”, a Zwastika as it’s now called, was painted on a hillside opposite Divnigorsk (Krasnoyarsk Region). Beneath the letter, stones were assembled to spell the town’s name. A protestor clambered up the hillside, took one bar off the Z and rearranged the stones to read “No to the War”.

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‘Vote to join Russia’ or armed soldiers will come for you

Russia has held the first three of five days of ‘voting’ in Russian-occupied parts of the Donetsk; Luhansk; Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, with Moscow claiming that this extraordinary stunt is a ‘referendum’ on joining Russia

• War crimes   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia heavily targets Crimean Tatars in forced mobilization in occupied Crimea

Reports from occupied Crimea suggest that Russia’s measures aimed at forcibly mobilizing men to fight its war against Ukraine are specifically targeting Crimean Tatars

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Look at this instead. Anti-war activities in Russia, 2-11 September 2022

A Russian artist Alevtina Yelsukova has sewn a quilt resembling the TV signal screen and sold it at auction. The money will be used to buy blankets for Ukrainian refugees. This quilt could cover the largest TV screen and stop anyone watching it again

• The right to liberty and security

Silence abets Russia in torturing and risking the lives of Ukrainian hostages and POWs in occupied Donbas

Of the civilian hostages, ‘sentenced’ by these Russian proxy entities on ‘spying’ or even ‘treason’ charges, very many are known to have been imprisoned and savagely tortured for their pro-Ukrainian position

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Russia needs sham 'referendums' on occupied territory to forcibly mobilize Ukrainians as cannon fodder

Russia is to hold pseudo ‘referendums’ in the occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts this weekend, with the plan clearly to swiftly declare them all ‘part of the Russian Federation’

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Russia sentences Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Nariman Dzhelyal to 17 years in revenge for Crimea Platform

A kangaroo court in Russian-occupied Crimea has imposed horrific sentences against Nariman Dzhelyal and two young cousins, Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, on entirely fictitious ‘sabotage’ charges