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…
On June 14, the Ukrainian checkpoints with Crimea reopened, that means cancelling the previous checkpoints passing restrictions. This decision was made by the Ukrainian government on June 12. This happened, many Ukrainian nationals began to…
The Crimean Human Rights Group presents to your attention the Brief Review on the human rights situation in Crimea in May 2020
On June 10, 2020, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation detained Andrey Kuliyevich, a 20-year-old local resident, in Sevastopol. He is charged with RF CC Articles 205-1 and 280-1 (Preparation of act of…
Follow the link to read previous Findings of monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic response in Crimea.
Mr. Taras Malyshevsky, Consul General of Ukraine in Rostov-na-Donu, visited last week, in May, ten Ukrainian nationals in Russian pre-trial detention centers. These are six people of the Yalta ‘Case of Crimean Muslims’ group: Muslim…
