In February the Crimean Human Rights Group documented 8 new criminal cases of Crimean residents for evading the military service in the Russian Federation Armed Forces. These are: 6 cases in the ‘Leninsky District Court…
Ms Olga Skrypnyk, the head of the Crimean Human Rights Group, made a speech on March 6, 2020 at a meeting of the UN Security Council under the Arria formula. The human rights expert told…
On March 5, 2020, the Dzhankoy District Court found Mr Sergey Filatov guilty of creating a branch of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious organization (RF CC Article 282.2-1) and sentenced him unlawfully to 6 years in…
‘The Yalta Town Court’ sentenced Mr Artiom Gerasimov, a Yalta Town resident, to a penalty of RUR400,000 (about UAH150,000) for establishing the ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses’ religious association in the town. The verdict was rendered by “judge”…
On March 3, 2020, the ‘Yalta Town Court’ decided to place Crimean activist Yunus Masharipov in the mental hospital for intreatment under an intensified monitoring. The defense of the Crimeans will appeal this decision. The…
On 23 February 2020 an ambitious militarist mass event was held in Sevastopol. There was an exhibition of military machines and arms at Nakhimova Square. The Russian military handed children…
Ukrainian Aleksey Stogniy returned home after serving his term in the Russian colony. This was reported by his wife Oksana Stogniy on her social network page. She thanked everyone who had been with her at…
The Crimean Human Rights Group presents to your attention the Brief Review on the human rights situation in Crimea in January 2020
The extended meeting of the Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Committee was held in Kherson, attended by Ms. Olga Skrypnyk, Chairman of the Crimean Human Rights Group Board, and Mr.Alexander Siedov, a CHRG analyst. The adoption…
On February 5, 2020, Denis Didenko, a judge of the ‘Kievsky District Court’, extended a pre-trial restriction for Ukrainian activist Oleh Prykhod’ko, a resident of the Saki district of Crimea, for 2 months more, until…
A court session that would have considered the appeal in the case of an administrative offense against Yalta blogger Yevgeniy Gayvoronsky, was not held in the “Supreme Court” of Crimea on January 22, 2020. The…
The Crimean Human Rights Group (CHRG) considers the case against Ivan Yatskin, a Crimean resident and a Ukrainian national, politically reasoned. In the monitoring review for human rights situation in Crimea – December 2019 –…
