On 4 September, Pervomayskoye village of Simferopol region of Crimea saw the detention of Nariman Dzhelyal. On 6 September, a Russia-controlled court in Simferopol heard his mock case, in which the defendant pleaded not guilty. Apart from...
Grani.ru, Russia’s independent website, draws a link between this event and the meeting of Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, and Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, within the Stockholm assembly of the OSCE...
Crimean Tatar lawyer Edem Semedlyaev was released from a remand prison in occupied Simferopol on the evening of 23 November after spending 12 days under administrative arrest. Members of the Crimean Tatar community came to the jail to...
Russia has moved one step closer to shut down Memorial, Russia’s most famous human rights organization, accusing it of violating its “foreign agent law” and of “justifying the activities of participants in...
Тoday, 127 Ukrainian citizens are illegally imprisoned in Russia and occupied Crimea for political reasons, and 283 Ukrainians – prisoners of war and civilian hostages – are being kept in horrendous basements in the...
In 2014, Russia invaded and occupied Crimea and certain parts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, thus breaching international law and several bilateral and multilateral agreements. Ukraine lost control over 7% of its territory and has been in...
Euromaidan Press is making the documentary Putin’s Hostages: Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin, freely available online. The documentary includes English, Ukrainian, German, Polish, and Russian subtitles. Putin’s...
After the occupation of Crimea in 2014, Russian authorities launched a wave of raids and searches in Crimean Tatar homes. The Tatars were accused and continue to be accused of “participation in the terrorist organization Hizb...
Childhood is a time of brightest memories, which you remember for the rest of your life. The childhoods of many Crimean children were cut short on the day when the representatives of Russian occupational forces broke into their homes in...
The “spies” and the “terrorists” In late March this year, the Military Court in the city of Rostov-on-Don sentenced Oleg Prykhodko, a 63-year-old Ukrainian living in Crimea, to 5 years in a high-security prison....
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
