World-famous intellectuals call on Putin to release filmmaker Sentsov before 2018 Football Cup
People all over the globe are signing the petition of French and other European & American artists, thinkers, writers, and scholars that urges sports fans and admirers of art to join the struggle for the...
Russia-controlled court in Crimea takes 5 minutes to jail Ukrainian academic for 5 years
Author: Halya Coynash A court in Russian-occupied Crimea has sentenced internationally-known academic Dmytro Shtyblikov to five years’ maximum security imprisonment on wildly implausible ‘sabotage’ charges. Shtyblikov had been prevented from seeing an independent lawyer for...
Statement of Ukrainian human rights and civiс NGOs on the persecution of Crimean activists
On 8 November 2017, illegal searches took place in the houses of Crimean Tatar activists and members of the “Crimean Solidarity” public movement: Seytumer Seytumerov, Eldar Kantemirov, the head of the regional Crimean Tatar mejlis...
Crimean Tatar leader Umerov receives Prize of Platform of European Memory and Conscience
Ilmi Umerov, Deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, was awarded the Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience-2017. The ceremony took place on November 8, during the platform conference “100 Years...
Liberated Crimean Tatar leaders: don’t forget other Ukrainian hostages of the Kremlin
The people whose joint efforts were crowned with the recent discharge of two prisoners, can and should make Russia release more, Chiygoz, deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, said at Svoboda Slova...
Imprisoned Crimean Tatar leaders Chiygoz and Umerov released by Russia, flown to Turkey
Crimean Tatar leaders Akhtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov, who were sentenced in occupied Crimea in politically motivated trials, have been reportedly pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin and have landed in Turkey, multiple sources reported...
EU Parliament demands Russia release 47 Ukrainian de facto political prisoners, urges sanctions
The European Parliament (EP) urges the Russian regime to end repression against representatives of the Crimean Tatar people and Ukrainians in Crimea and calls for an immediate release of all political hostages illegally imprisoned by...
Four Crimean Tatars detained in new wave of religious persecution
Victims of the Russian “police of thought” On 2 October, masked Russian security officers raided the house of Renat Suleymanov, the father of three daughters. They took him away in a car with a hidden...
“This system can punish and torture people in the most perverse ways”: filmmaker Sentsov’s letter from Russian jail
The Russian journalist and human rights defender Zoya Svetova has received a letter from Oleg Sentsov, the Ukrainian film director and writer who was sentenced to 20 years in Russian jail for opposing the illegal...
Donate to grant legal defense to 19-y.o. Ukrainian hostage of Russia
The family of the Ukrainian citizen Pavlo Hryb (Gryb), who was kidnapped from Belarus to Russia, asks non-indifferent people to support him. After the two weeks of silence, Russian authorities acknowledged that Pavlo, a young blogger and...