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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

Experts call for a new global security paradigm against the Russian threat
News - 17 October 2023

Experts call for a new global security paradigm against the Russian threat

Klishch emphasized the importance of implementing an exclusively Ukrainian formula for peace, as only Ukraine has the right to determine the conditions for ending the war. He believes that reevaluation of many aspects of the international order is inevitable to ensure the interaction of security and development

States from all continents urged to join the coalition to create a special tribunal for Russia
News - 16 October 2023

States from all continents urged to join the coalition to create a special tribunal for Russia

Ambassador-at-large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Anton Korynevych stresses the need to join forces to demonstrate that dictatorial regimes are responsible for their crimes, and thus, together with international partners, the world needs to prevent future conflicts and wars

Ukraine сalls for international action on revision of safety rules to protect nuclear power plants
News - 16 October 2023

Ukraine сalls for international action on revision of safety rules to protect nuclear power plants

Secretary of the Committee on Fuel Energy, Nuclear Policies and Security at International Center for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV) Viktoria Voitsitska called on international politicians and decision-makers to stop using the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as an excuse to close their eyes towards Russian terrorism

Despite international law, occupying authorities in Crimea order conscription of 2,500 locals
News - 15 October 2023

Despite international law, occupying authorities in Crimea order conscription of 2,500 locals

Russia also prosecute citizens of Ukraine in Crimea for evading service in the RF Armed Forces. As of 30 June 2023, the Crimean Human Rights Group has documented at least 468 criminal cases under RF CC Article 328 (“evading the service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”) sent to illegal “courts” in the occupied peninsula

Fines and imprisonments: How Crimeans are persecuted for the truth about the war in Ukraine and dissatisfaction with the occupation
Articles - 09 October 2023

Fines and imprisonments: How Crimeans are persecuted for the truth about the war in Ukraine and dissatisfaction with the occupation

Consideration of protocols on administrative offense for 'discrediting the Russian army's actions' in the illegal "courts" on the Crimean Peninsula is connected with systemic violations of main standards of access to fair justice, the Crimean Process claimed

A typical day in a Russian prison (a diary of a civilian hostage)
Articles - 08 September 2023

A typical day in a Russian prison (a diary of a civilian hostage)

ZMINA has obtained a diary written by one of the Kremlin’s prisoners, Dmytro (name changed for security reasons), which he secretly kept throughout his imprisonment. We also spoke with Yevgen Yamkovyi and Viacheslav Zavalnyi, who learned firsthand what the modern Russian penitentiary system is like

Crimean Human Rights initiative sounds alarm over decreasing healthcare for civilians in occupied Crimea
News - 14 August 2023

Crimean Human Rights initiative sounds alarm over decreasing healthcare for civilians in occupied Crimea

According to Qirim Gayesi, the maintenance of healthcare institutions has been severely compromised since the onset of the Russian invasion. Heads of medical institutions in Crimea were instructed to send surgeons and surgical nurses to the Ministry of Defense of the occupying country

126 Ukrainian women are in Russian captivity, most of them civilians
News - 04 July 2023

126 Ukrainian women are in Russian captivity, most of them civilians

Twenty-three women in captivity have children: 14 military women have 23 children, and nine civilians have 15

Occupation authorities in Ukrainian Crimea accused of using administrative resources to justify Russia’s war
News - 25 June 2023

Occupation authorities in Ukrainian Crimea accused of using administrative resources to justify Russia’s war

The occupying authorities regularly receive plans to collect "voluntary" aid for the Russian military, which are often funded by Crimean entrepreneurs. Representatives of businesses fear to disapprove of the imposed support for the Russian army due to potential repercussions from occupying bodies

Moscow court detained Crimean Tatar Leniie Umerova, who traveled to her cancer-stricken father in the temporarily occupied Crimea, on ‘espionage’ charges.
News - 05 May 2023

Moscow court detained Crimean Tatar Leniie Umerova, who traveled to her cancer-stricken father in the temporarily occupied Crimea, on ‘espionage’ charges.

According to the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the girl did not even have time to finish her previous administrative detention, when she was abducted by the FSB and taken to Moscow, to the Lefortovo detention center

In Crimea, law enforcers are searching the house of a large family from Bilohirsk district
News - 10 August 2017

In Crimea, law enforcers are searching the house of a large family from Bilohirsk district

One of the streets in Novoklenove village is blocked

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

Court in Moscow Extended Sushchenko’s Detention for Another 3 Months
News - 27 June 2017

Court in Moscow Extended Sushchenko’s Detention for Another 3 Months

Ukrainian journalist managed to communicate with political prisoner

In occupied Crimea the court extended the term of arrest of Chiygoz for additional three months
News - 22 June 2017

In occupied Crimea the court extended the term of arrest of Chiygoz for additional three months

The panel of judges led by Victor Zinkovyi ignored the statement of lawyer Oleksandr Lisovuy about the fact that detention based only on the gravity of charges contradicts the recommendations and practice of the European Court of Human Rights

In the trial of Chiygoz the so-called senators of Crimea gave conflicting testimonies
News - 21 June 2017

In the trial of Chiygoz the so-called senators of Crimea gave conflicting testimonies

The court has questioned Sergei Tsekov and Olga Kovitidi as witnesses

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