Operatives of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) are conducting new searches in the homes of Crimean Tatars on the occupied Crimean peninsula, the Crimean Solidarity public organization reported on Facebook.
For FSB officers in Russian-occupied Crimea, armed searches, arrests, and imprisonment of Ukrainian Muslims are the road to career success, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group wrote.
The human rights situation in the Russia-occupied Crimea has significantly deteriorated under Russian occupation, with “multiple and grave violations” committed by Russian state agents, according to a landmark report by the UN Human Rights Office published Monday, September 25.
Eighteen Jehovah’s Witness communities in Russian-occupied Crimea have just been formally banned as supposedly ‘extremist organizations,’ Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group reports.
A 46-year-old Volodymyr Balukh, a Ukrainian activist and recognized political prisoner, has been sentenced to 3 years, seven months after a gravely flawed trial which human rights groups have condemned as reprisals for his open opposition to Russia's occupation of his native Crimea – and, effectively, for a Ukrainian flag, according to Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KhPG).
The still-fresh historical wound of the 1944 deportation of 240,000 ethnic Tatars from Crimea has been reopened, with Russia’s illegal annexation of the Ukrainian territory in 2014 and Moscow’s continued repression of the Tatar community, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin's column published by The Wall Street Journal Tuesday.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov has honored victims of political repression on the Day of Remembrance, saying that the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine in November 2013-February 2014, also called the Maidan, did everything so that political repression in the country could never happen again.