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From 17-year sentence to death in Russian captivity for Crimean Tatar political prisoner accused of another person’s voice on a tape?

Russia’s FSB targeted Azamat Eyupov, veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement, for his peaceful protest against Russian repression, with nothing allowed to prevent a 17-year sentence

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Russia sentences youngest abducted journalist to 14 years for Melitopol is Ukraine Telegram channel

The sentence against Yana Suvorova is the fourth to date against courageous journalists / Telegram channel administrators providing truthful information about Melitopol under Russian occupation

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Ukrainian abducted, tortured and sentenced to life because Ukraine carried out an attack on Russian invaders

If Mykola Dzhosh did provide information to Ukraine’s Armed Forces, then all credit to him, however the 33-year-old may well have been seized because the Russians needed somebody to blame

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Imprisoned Ukrainian marine biologist charged with ‘treason’ for opposing Russia’s plans in Antarctic area

Russia is openly persecuting 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov for remaining loyal to Ukraine and for seeking to protect marine resources and diversity in the Southern Ocean. Without robust international attention, he faces a 12-20-year sentence

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Russian court orders rearrest and 17-year sentence against blind and disabled Crimean political prisoner

Russia’s prosecutor has confirmed that even blindness and Russian legislation envisaging Oleksandr Sizikov’s release are no impediment where Russia’s persecution of Crimean political prisoners is concerned

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Russian invaders gun down civilians in Pokrovsk, try to kill others in evacuation van

It is not just that the invaders know they can kill civilians with impunity. Putin has 'honoured' many such suspected war criminals

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Russia passes massive sentences against 15 Ukrainian POWs for defending Ukraine against its invasion

Using a ruling issued long after the prisoners of war were seized and then put on ‘trial’, Russia claimed that their defence of their country was ‘terrorism’ and ‘a violent attempt to seize power’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Menacing threats against human rights defender Lutfiye Zudiyeva after Russia’s arrests of four Crimean Tatar women

Russia is demonstratively showing that nobody is safe from persecution and terror in occupied Crimea and silence from the international community only increases the danger for those, like Lutfiye Zudiyeva, unwilling to be silenced

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Abducted Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant engineer sentenced to 16 years on grotesque ‘treason’ charges

55-year-old Ruslan Lavryk now urgently needs hospitalization, with the Russians having doubtless tortured him, as they have many other employees from the nuclear power plant under their occupation

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Courageous protest and disturbing silence over terrifying Russian attack on Crimean Tatar women

International protest is vital with Russia clearly sending a message that nobody is safe from being seized in armed raids and imprisoned for decades without any crime

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Four Crimean Tatar women could face 20-year sentences in new wave of Russian terror in occupied Crimea

This is a terrifying escalation in Russian repression, with Russia now targeting women, including mothers and very young students

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar political prisoner rearrested to die in Russian captivity after release because of cancer

Russia has demonstrated contempt for its own laws, by so dooming Lenur Khalilov to die a painful death in the inhuman conditions of a Russian prison, thousands of kilometres from his family