The Crimean Human Rights Group has created a unique online resource accessible to all, where it has made public part of its database on Ukrainian citizens who are currently held in places of detention under fabricated politically motivated criminal “Crimean cases”. In addition, the resource discloses the names of occupation judges, prosecutors, RF FSB men involved in the persecution of a specific person.
Since the beginning of the Crimea occupation the Crimean Human Rights Group team has been documenting the crimes of the Russian Federation in Crimea. All this time, human rights defenders have been continuously filling the CHRG database with information about war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as evidence of these crimes. Politically motivated persecution has become one of the main areas of documenting.
The CHRG database contains information on more than 1,400 victims of politically and religiously motivated persecutions in Crimea.
The CHRG keeps on monitoring continues “court” sessions in such cases. For instance, there is documented information on almost 3,000 “court” hearings in politically motivated criminal cases in courts of first instance, on 1,500 such hearings in “courts” of second instance. In total, the CHRG database contains information on more than 84,000 court hearings in the context of human rights violations. Human rights defenders are also documenting the facts of transferring political prisoners or referring them to forced psychiatric examination.
It is important for the CHRG to document all victims of Russian repressions and seek their release. At the same time, human rights defenders are collecting evidence of the involvement of the Russian occupation authorities in the persecution of the Crimea residents to bring all the guilty to justice. The CHRG database contains information about at least 600 “judges” of Crimea and the Russian Federation who participate in politically motivated trials against Ukrainian citizens as well as about 200 Russian security agency men, for whom the CHRG has relevant verifying information and evidence.
The evidence and information collected by the CHRG are used in national and international investigations as well as for imposing personal sanctions.
