“I hope to see him, cast a glance at him and hold his hand,” Aliye says with tears in her eyes. Her cancer leaves her, perhaps, several weeks, if not days, of life. “I miss him very much… My only wish is to see my son just for a...
Abduction in occupied Crimea On May 10, 2014, Oleg Sentsov, along with three other Ukrainian citizens (Kolchenko, Chyrniy, and Hennadii Afanasiev), was captured by the officers of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in the Crimean...
On 26 April 2017, Russian military court sentenced the Crimean Tatar activist Ruslan Zeytullaev to 12-year imprisonment. He is one of at least 42 Ukrainian citizens who are now held political hostages of the Kremlin. For three weeks,...
The leading human rights and civic organizations of Ukraine appeal to you regarding the case of Ruslan Zeytullaev, a citizen of Ukraine, a Crimean Tatar and an activist whom the Russian Federation is illegally depriving of freedom on...
Ruslan is now undergoing a farcical trial in Russia for the second time. As he explains, the hunger strike is his personal act of protest against the ruthless xenophobic repression of the Crimean Tatar people, of which his own unfair case...
The Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has been sentenced to 20 years in Russian jail for resisting the occupation of his native Crimea. He is one of the 44 Ukrainian hostages of the Kremlin. The #LetMyPeopleGo campaign advocates for the...
At least 36 Ukrainians are jailed in Russia and occupied Crimea on politically motivated grounds, according to the #LetMyPeopleGo campaign. People all over the world are sending them postcards and letters as part of the holiday marathon...
At least 36 Ukrainians are illegally imprisoned by Russia on political motives. They are part of the #LetMyPeopleGo list. The initiative LetMyPeopleGo has launched a New Year’s marathon to send postcards to the Ukrainian...
The initiative Euromaidan SOS and its partners within the campaign LetMyPeopleGo have launched the New Year’s Marathon of Letters to the Ukrainian prisoners, who are persecuted on political grounds in Russia and occupied Crimea. Some...
Activists in the USA have launched a campaign to gather support for a bill called H.R. 5094 STAND which would cement the USA’s condemnation of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. The bill, coauthored by Reps. Eliot Engel...
On 23 June 1978, a Soviet police officer came to the house of a Crimean Tatar Musa Mamut to escort him to a meeting with a prosecutor. Mamut was legally not allowed to live in Crimea, due to his nationality. In fact, he had just returned...
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