Illegally imprisoned Ukrainian journalist sends sketches to family
Ukrinform correspondent in France, Roman Sushchenko, was detained in violation of international legislation on September 30, 2016 in…
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Crimean jailed for Ukrainian flag announces termless hunger strike
Volodymyr Balukh, the Crimean activist who flew the Ukrainian flag over his house in Russian-occupied Crimea, has gone…
We must protect Crimea’s human rights defenders
It is an unfortunate fact that many governments misuse anti-terrorism laws against human rights defenders. Yet, the extent…
Ukrainian taxi driver tortured and jailed to prove Russia’s “Ukrainian saboteur” scam
On 16 February 2017, the Supreme Court of occupied Crimea sentenced Ukrainian taxi driver Andriy Zakhtey to six…
Sanctions needed to free Ukrainian captives in Russia
Sanctions and high-profile negotiators are the most effective tools for the release of Ukrainians held hostage by the…
UK journalist who wrote about Crimean Tatar political prisoners fined, expelled from Crimea
The British journalist Madeline Roache, who wrote about human rights in the post-Soviet space, especially the political abuse…
A mother’s heartbreaking appeal to get her son back from Russian captivity
In 2014, a Russian judge found Stanislav Klykh guilty of fighting against Russian forces in the 1990s Chechen…
Crimean court sentences activist who flew Ukrainian flag in gravely falsified trial
On 16 January 2017, Volodymyr Balukh, the Crimean farmer who kept raising the Ukrainian flag above his house…
Spirits unbroken: “Crimean Solidarity” pays $14,000 of fines of repressed activists with coins
In December 2017, the Ukrainian civic initiative Euromaidan SOS awarded its annual Volunteer Prize to the Crimean Tatar…
Sister of youngest Ukrainian prisoner of the Kremlin asks Council of Europe if it’s ready to give up its values
The European Convention on Human Rights stipulates that everyone has the right to liberty and security of person…
Russian occupiers now hold at least 70 political prisoners in Crimea
To mark International Human Rights Day, the Crimean Human Rights Defense Group has released an infographic on the…
Russia aims to smear Mejlis after latest raid on Crimean Tatars which left one dead and imprisoned four
On 23 November, Russian secret police (FSB) raided two cafes and a number of houses in Crimea’s capital,…
World-famous intellectuals call on Putin to release filmmaker Sentsov before 2018 Football Cup
As both the Russian presidential election and the FIFA World Cup in Russia are approaching, and Oleg’s health…
Crimean Tatar leader Umerov awarded Prize of Platform of European Memory and Conscience
Ilmi Umerov, Deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, was awarded the Prize of the Platform…
Russia kidnapped two Ukrainian border guards and may hunt for more
The officers of Ukraine’s State Border Service (DPSU) Ihor Dzyubak and Bohdan Martson disappeared in Sumy Oblast, near…
Russian proxy “republic” sentences two pro-Ukrainian football fans to 13 & 17 years
On 26 October, journalist Roman Bochkala wrote on Facebook that an "LNR" court sentenced a fan of the Luhansk Zorya…
The humanitarian factor in Russia’s hybrid war
The recent release of convicted Crimean Tatar leaders Ilmi Umerov and Akhmet Chiygoz marks the first release of…
Liberated Crimean Tatar leaders: don’t forget other Ukrainian hostages of the Kremlin
The people whose joint efforts were crowned with the recent discharge of two prisoners, can and should make…
Putin’s approach to Crimean Tatar leaders like Brezhnev’s toward Soviet refuseniks, Portnikov says
Vladimir Putin’s freeing and then expulsion abroad of Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz, two leaders of the Crimean…
Imprisoned Crimean Tatar leaders Chiygoz and Umerov released by Russia, flown to Turkey
Crimean Tatar leaders Akhtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov, who were sentenced in occupied Crimea in politically motivated trials,…