Mejlis

A decade of repressions: Crimean Tatars and Ukrainains targeted in Russia’s brutal crackdown on dissent
News - 22 March 2024

A decade of repressions: Crimean Tatars and Ukrainains targeted in Russia’s brutal crackdown on dissent

Amnesty International stated that with international crimes, Russia has attempted to change the ethnic makeup of Crimea while suppressing non-Russian identities on the peninsula, including through restricting education in Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar languages, attacking religious minorities, stifling media and culture, as well as undermining representative institutions and abusing the criminal justice system

CrimeaSOS calls for sanctions against Russian and illegitimate judges in occupied Crimea for violations of the right to a fair trial in fabricated criminal cases against Ukrainian citizens
News - 08 November 2023

CrimeaSOS calls for sanctions against Russian and illegitimate judges in occupied Crimea for violations of the right to a fair trial in fabricated criminal cases against Ukrainian citizens

Crimea SOS emphasizes that Russian judges and illegal “judges” in the temporarily occupied Crimea shall be held liable for the abovementioned violations within the Ukrainian jurisdiction, the International Criminal Court or under the mechanism of universal jurisdiction and shall be subjected to personal sanctions

Reclaiming Crimea: the path to restoration and unity
Columns - 24 October 2023

Reclaiming Crimea: the path to restoration and unity

All foreigners or stateless persons who have settled in the occupied Crimea and other temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine have deliberately committed a crime and must immediately leave Crimea, Refat Chubarov says

Gafarov-Shyring list: how Russia is killing political prisoners in Crimea
Articles - 18 July 2023

Gafarov-Shyring list: how Russia is killing political prisoners in Crimea

Tetyana Pechonchyk emphasized the importance of publicizing information about political prisoners. In her opinion, it is essential to tell the stories of illegally imprisoned Ukrainian citizens, spread them on social media and abroad, put pressure on Russia, initiate new resolutions of the European Parliament, and raise issues at the level of the OSCE and UN bodies so that Ukrainian citizens, political prisoners at risk with complex diseases, are released first and unconditionally

Chiygoz’s judges refuse to attach the report of human rights defenders to the case
News - 24 July 2017

Chiygoz’s judges refuse to attach the report of human rights defenders to the case

Chiygoz challenged the court once again...

Only one person from more than 200 interrogated testified against Chiygoz in the court – Polozov
News - 07 July 2017

Only one person from more than 200 interrogated testified against Chiygoz in the court – Polozov

Even members of the “people’s militia” have not testified against Chiygoz

Dying mother of Chiygoz must visit him in the SIZO herself – the decision of the Crimean authorities
News - 20 June 2017

Dying mother of Chiygoz must visit him in the SIZO herself – the decision of the Crimean authorities

Lawyer Polozov called this situation a blasphemy

MFA demands from Russia to allow Chiygoz to meet his ill mother
News - 16 June 2017

MFA demands from Russia to allow Chiygoz to meet his ill mother

Mother of Akhtem Chiygoz is at death

In the trial of Chiygoz, the defense filed a request for the interrogation of Chubarov
News - 22 May 2017

In the trial of Chiygoz, the defense filed a request for the interrogation of Chubarov

This request was a surprise for the judges

In Crimea rallies against discrimination were banned
News - 17 May 2017

In Crimea rallies against discrimination were banned

Refusal is deprived of any meaning whatsoever...

Witness in “Chiygoz case” told who is actually behind the riots on February 26
News - 15 May 2017

Witness in “Chiygoz case” told who is actually behind the riots on February 26

Approximately at 12 am, five or six people with military bearings appeared at the pro-Russian rally, they were hiding unknown items, which resembled sticks, under their jackets...

FSB has beaten and kidnapped the son of the Head of the Sudak Mejlis
News - 08 May 2017

FSB has beaten and kidnapped the son of the Head of the Sudak Mejlis

The reason for the search was an anonymous letter on the illegal circulation of arms and drugs and alleged involvement of Ametov

In Zhytomyr region homophobe attacked a beloved of the freelance employee of the Ministry of Social Policy
News - 04 May 2017

In Zhytomyr region homophobe attacked a beloved of the freelance employee of the Ministry of Social Policy

Police opened the case under Article 125 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Intended minor bodily injury) and not under the article on a hate crime

Dzhemiliev: a totalitarian regime worse than the Soviet established in the Crimea
News - 06 April 2017

Dzhemiliev: a totalitarian regime worse than the Soviet established in the Crimea

The leader of the Crimean Tatar people spoke at a conference on conflict and violence in the world held in Bratislava

Chiygoz and Polozov removed from court hearing on consideration of their complaints
News - 05 April 2017

Chiygoz and Polozov removed from court hearing on consideration of their complaints

Judges acted prejudiced, deliberately scandalous and aggressive

At the trial of Semena witness did not confirm the testimony given during investigation
News - 03 April 2017

At the trial of Semena witness did not confirm the testimony given during investigation

During the interrogation it became clear that the case materials contain operational data which is not authorized by the court

Ilmi Umerov served an indictment
News - 22 March 2017

Ilmi Umerov served an indictment

Ilmi Umerov, Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis, was handed an indictment

During the court hearing Chiygoz expressed his distrust in the Prosecutor
News - 28 December 2016

During the court hearing Chiygoz expressed his distrust in the Prosecutor

For “blatantly biased approach and unwillingness to see the obvious”