political prisoners
Over the past two years, 10 mass detentions of Crimean Tatars registered in Crimea
Since the beginning of 2021, at least 10 mass detentions have occurred in the temporarily occupied Crimea. Most incidents occurred near the buildings of Russia’s government institutions. From September to November 2021 alone, the occupiers carried out six mass detentions of activists from the Crimean Tatar community, the peninsula’s indigenous people. Human rights defenders from […]
Political prisoner Rustem Seytmemetov’s health deteriorates
Political prisoner Rustem Seytmemetov’s eyesight has fallen, his blood pressure is constantly jumping, and his legs swell due to the hot weather – because of this, he has to take medication all the time. This update was reported by Crimean Solidarity, a prominent human rights initiative that focused on the rights of Crimean Tatars and […]
Crimean political prisoner Dmytro Shtyblikov is kept isolated
The health of Ukrainian political prisoner Dmytro Shtyblikov, who was convicted of “high treason” by Russia for the second time, is deteriorating. Russian occupying forces keep him in a complete information vacuum. The Association of Relatives of Kremlin’s Political Prisoners, a Ukrainian non-profit organization that supports family members of political prisoners held by Russia, reports […]
Russian occupying forces in Crimea detained 66 Crimean Tatars since January 2023
In the first half of 2023, human rights activists recorded 101 detentions in the occupied Crimea, 66 of them against Crimean Tatars, as stated in the analysis of human rights violations presented by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center (CTRC) this July. In the same period of six months in 2022, 79 such detentions of activists […]
Gafarov-Shyring list: how Russia is killing political prisoners in Crimea
Amet Suleymanov, a Crimean Tatar and a civic journalist and streamer of the Crimean Solidarity is 38 years old. He is a defendant in the third Bakhchysarai case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a political party banned in Russia. Under the pretext of participating in it, Russians fabricate cases against Crimean Tatars who did not accept the […]
Political prisoner Server Mustafayev shares about poor conditions in Russian prison and lack of medical aid
A political prisoner from Crimea and a human rights activist, Server Mustafayev, has to wait to see a cardiologist despite heart pain and shortness of breath, as reported by his wife, Maye Mustafayeva. Mustafayev was a coordinator of a prominent human rights initiative, Crimean Solidarity, that focused on the rights of Crimean Tatars and political […]
Health condition of a Crimean political prisoner Volodymyr Dudka deteriorates
The health condition of the Crimean political prisoner Volodymyr Dudka is deteriorating. Russian occupying forces do not provide him with medical care, according to Ilya Dudka, the son of Volodymyr Dudka. Ilya shared this news with the Association of Political Prisoners of the Kremlin, a Ukrainian non-profit organization that supports family members of political prisoners held […]
A letter from unfreedom. Read a message from Bogdan Ziza, an artist and a Crimean political prisoner
The artist and Kremlin political prisoner Bogdan Ziza received 15 years of imprisonment by a Russian court for splashing a door of the municipality with blue and yellow paint in Yevpatoria, a city in the Western part of occupied Crimea. On June 10, he began a hunger strike. ZMINA received a letter from Bogdan Ziza […]
European human rights court will review a complaint on the illegal detention of a Crimean journalist Iryna Danylovych
The European Court of Human Rights took into consideration a complaint submitted by lawyers this January from a Ukrainian human rights group Crimea SOS about the illegal detention and persecution by Russian occupying authorities of a civic journalist Iryna Danylovych from Feodosiya in the Eastern part of the Crimean peninsula. In late April of last […]
Kremlin Prisoners: How to Write a Letter to a Political Prisoner
Since the outbreak of a full-scale war, Russia has ramped up its repression against Ukrainian citizens. Russian authorities are continuing to illegally detain Ukrainians and file politically motivated charges against them in order to get Ukraine to make concessions.
Over 30 citizens of Ukraine are persecuted for participation in the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion
ZMINA discusses below one form of political persecution in the temporarily occupied territories, which includes cases related to the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion
In Crimea a new criminal case was opened against Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh
Head of the Rozdolnensky isolator filed a complaint
“Crimean saboteur” Zakhtiy could have admitted his guilt under tortures – human rights defender
This is not the first such case in the practice of Russian investigation against Ukrainian political prisoners
Court in Moscow Extended Sushchenko’s Detention for Another 3 Months
Ukrainian journalist managed to communicate with political prisoner
In Russia Ruslan Zeytullayev sentenced to 12 years in a strict-regime colony
As reported by lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, today Ruslan will stop his hunger strike
Journalist of UNIAN and a cameraman of “1+1” TV channel detained in Moscow
Postgraduate student, who hanged out Ukrainian flag, was also detained with journalists
Families of Ukrainian political prisoners ask the EU to impose new sanctions against Russia
Urgent debate on the topic of political prisoners and situation in Crimea
FSB refused to attach statement of Ukrainian Intelligence to Sushchenko case
As reported by Mark Feygin, the lawyer of the journalist
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A letter from unfreedom. Read a message from Bogdan Ziza, an artist and a Crimean political prisoner
I sewed up vaginal tears with veterinary needle and capron for sails: Story of gynecologist from Izyum
Which cities do the most for the integration of IDPs in Ukraine?
Ukraine: NGOs need EU help
