Crimean Tatars
Number of people convicted of extremism grows threefold in Russia
In 2015, the Russian courts convicted 414 persons under Article 282 of the Criminal Code (extremism); the number is three times higher than in 2011 (137 persons)
PGO launches proceeding over ban of Mejlis
The Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has launched criminal proceeding over illegal ban of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People in Crimea
Mejlis: We call on nobody to leave Crimea
The Mejlis considers that ban on the representative body of Crimean Tatars by Russia is aimed at ousting the indigenous people from the peninsula
Over 150 Crimean Tatars called up for military service, occupation authorities state
The occupation authorities in Crimea called up more than 150 Crimean Tatars for military service last year
A hundred armed men come to demolish houses of Crimean Tatars in Sudak
About a hundred armed men came to Alchak residential area in Sudak (Crimea), where they planned to demolish six houses of Crimean Tatars
Houses of Kurultai delegates in Crimea searched
Russian law enforcement officers searched the house of head of the Kurman regional Mejlis Uchkun Devletshaev
Another scandal in Lviv – a guy with cerebral palsy not allowed into Sport Life club because of ‘unsanitary conditions’
The employees of the Sport Life fitness club in Lviv refused to sell a club card to a man with cerebral palsy because he "will create unsanitary conditions"
Court of occupied Crimea takes four Crimean residents into custody
The human rights activists believe that a new wave of reprisals against the Crimean Tatars has started in the Russian-occupied Crimea
Ahtem Chiygoz says prosecutors exert pressure on judges
He believes that in such a way the occupying power is trying to intimidate the entire Crimean Tatar people
European Parliament notes ‘unprecedented level of human rights abuses against Crimean Tatars’
The resolution again underscores unlawfulness of Crimea's occupation by Russia
Council of Europe mission visits Akhtem Chiygoz
They talked for about an hour and a half. They were assisted by an interpreter, offered by the occupying power of Crimea
Two attackers on Maidan activists sentenced in Kyiv
January 17, 2014, the members of Oplot fight club, located in Kharkiv, blocked the Automaidan participants
CoE mission wants to attend hearing over case of February 26
The mission was invited to the court hearing by Nikolai Polozov
Council of Europe sends human rights mission to Crimea
It will be headed by Swiss diplomat Gerard Stoudmann
Crimean Tatars asked to keep an eye on their relatives
The Crimean Tatars are asked to necessarily accompany their children to the place of their studies as well as to keep constant contact with them
Law enforcement agencies receive almost 140 complaints for four months of Crimea blockade
Of this number, 15 complaints were entered in the unified register of pre-trial investigations
16-year-old Crimean Tatar girl gone missing in occupied Crimea
She went for studies yesterday and did not come back
Crimean schoolboy paints Ukrainian flag, parents called up
Performing the task at the lesson titled “What is my Homeland?”, the boy filled the Russian flag with the colors of the Ukrainian one
Columns
Ukrainian parliament appeals for NATO membership as foundation for lasting peace
Ukraine rejects “pacifying the aggressor” as a path to peace
“Appeasement never works”: Lessons from Bosnia’s post-war justice
Liberia demands Russia immediately halt aggression and restore Crimea to Ukraine
