The Crimean Human Rights Group

Stanislav Khudoley (Stetsenko), arrested for “high treason”, was taken out of Crimea. According to the relatives of the detainee, he is now presumably in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, and a lawyer is trying to…

The situation with the Department of Monitoring Criminal Proceedings On Crimes Committed under Armed Conflict (hereinafter referred to as the “Department of War”) remains serious and involves a risk for a comprehensive investigation of war…

The occupation power is blocking about three dozen websites, including international ones, that may provide residents of the peninsula with real information about the spread of COVID-19. According to Ms. Olha Skrypnyk, the head of…

The “Zheleznodorozhnyi District Court” of Simferopol considered an appeal against the ruling of the “court of peace” against Mr.Bekir Mamutov, the editor-in-chief of the “Kyrym” newspaper who was charged under RF CoAO Art. 13.15 (“Abuse…

Defendants of ‘the 2nd Bakhchisarai Case’ was visited by Taras Malyshevsky, Consul of Ukraine, in the Detention Center no 3 of Novocherkask on 1 June 2021. As Mr. Malyshevsky told the Crimean Human Rights Group,…

Today, on May 17, the RF Military Court of Appeal considered an appeal in a criminal case against Ukrainian activist Oleh Prykhod’ko, w accused of making and keeping an improvised explosive device as well as…

A session was held in the Kievskiy District Court of Simferopol on extending the pre-trial detention for Vladyslav Yesypenko. FSB investigator Vlasov filed a petition to extend the pre-trial detention until July 11. The defense…

The US State Department published 2020 Ukraine Human Rights Report that included, inter alia, violations of human rights by Russia in Crimea. A major part of the data used in the report are based on…

Today, on April 6, 2021, “Supreme Court of Crimea” has considered an appeal against the arrest of Vladyslav Yesypenko, a journalist of KRYM.REALII outlet. The Ukrainian would be kept in the pre-trial detention center until…

The third precinct of the ‘Municipal Court” of the Kievsky district of Simferopol, has started considering an administrative offense case against Mr.Bekir Mamutov, the editor-in-chief of the Qirim newspaper. The session was held without the…

On March 24, 2021, the ‘Sevastopol City Court’ convicted Ms.Halyna Dovhopola, a 66-year-old citizen of Ukraine and a resident of Sevastopol, under Art. 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (high treason) to…