At least 73 administrative cases under Article ‘the public actions aimed at discrediting the Russian army’ for consideration by Crimean ‘courts’. On March 4 an article regarding ‘the public actions aimed at discrediting the Russian…
A “Crimean Battalion” of 1,200 volunteers was sent to war. This was stated by Sergey Aksionov, ‘head’ of Crimea occupation authorities, RBC reports. According to him, more than 1,200 persons, including representatives of the “Kazaks”,…
The Southern Military Area Court sentenced Azamat Eyupov, aged 59, from Bilohirsk to 17 years in the maximum security penal colony. As activist Lutfie Zudiyeva reports, the verdict was passed by a judicial panel headed…
Moscow Mechanism Report 2 on violations of international humanitarian law by Russia, its war crimes and crimes against humanity has been published. The document covers the period of April 1 – June 25. In the…
The Southern Military Area Courtof Rostov-na-Donu sentenced Crimean Muslims Oleh Fedorov and Ernest Ibragimov to 13 years each in the maximum security regime penal colony. This was reported by activist Mamine Saliyeva. ‘Oleh (Ali) Fedorov…
The Crimean Human Rights Group presents to your attention the Brief “Human rights situation in Crimea and 100 days of full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine”
We, the representatives of the human rights organizations, address the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with a request to immediately launch the process of preparing an open and independent competition for the position of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner…
While the international community’s main focus is on large-scale war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Russian military in the war zone in Ukraine, gross human rights violations in the occupied Crimea remain…
Today, the ‘Supreme Court of Crimea’ was to consider an appeal against the verdict of the ‘Simferopol District Court’ against journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko, who was sentenced to 6 years in the penal colony. The defense…
The ‘Gagarinsky District Court’ of Sevastopol sentenced conditionally a 21-year-old local resident for “appeals for extremism on social networks.” The FSB instituted proceedings under RF CC Article 280-2 – public appeals to extremist activities –…
President signed the law on protection of political prisoners. He mentioned this in his speech dedicated to the Memory Day of Crimean Tatar People Genocide Victims. “Today, on this very day, I am signing the…
On this day 78 years ago, the communist regime committed genocide against the indigenous people of Crimea. The history of persecution of Crimean Tatars has been repeated since the occupation of the peninsula by Russia…
