To Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine Mr. Denys Shmyhal’ Prime-Minister of Ukraine On August 8, 2020, the Government, at the special meeting, adopted Ordinance no 979r that re-imposed in fact the March…
On July 23, 2020 the so-called “bailiffs service” of Crimea handed to archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) Clement a resolution on the demolition of the OCU temple in…
The Crimean Human Rights Group presents to your attention the Brief Review on the human rights situation in Crimea in June 2020
On July 7th, 2020 representatives of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russian Federation conducted searches in occupied Crimea. This resulted in arrest of 7 individuals: Seyran Khayretdinov, Oleksandr Sizikov, Emil Ziyadinov, Ismet Ibrahimov, Alim…
Comparing to the previous monitoring the situation with the website blocking has become worse. The occupation authorities have blocked completely at least 4 major Ukrainian media websites. 8 providers in Crimea are completely blocking 30…
Today is June 26, International Day for the Support of Torture Victims. On this day in 1987, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment was adopted. To date, the…
The Crimean Human Rights Group presented a special rapporteur to the Commission on Human Rights on freedom of religion or belief of the United Nations with a document that presented facts on persecuting religious organizations…
On June 25, 2020, a court session was held on “the case of Yunus Masharipov, a Crimean Tatar activist”, in the “Supreme Court” of Crimea. The panel of “judges”, chaired by Konstantin Karavayev, upheld the…
The “Supreme Court” of Crimea began to consider on merits a criminal case against Mr. Refat Chubarov, the Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. Refat Chubarov is charged under RF CC Article…
Ms Irina Siedova, a Crimean Human Rights Group expert, reported the situation with the independent Ukrainian mass media in Crimea at the OSCE online session in Vienna on 23 June 2020. ‘Consistent sessions of monitoring…
This is confirmed by the Crimean Human Rights Group monitoring results of today’s public events on the peninsula.
The Crimean Human Rights Group held the next monitoring of the FM radio station broadcasting in the north of peninsula in June 2020. The situation with receiving the Ukrainian FM signal became worse, comparing to…
