World powers, human rights organizations indignant about Russia’s conviction of Crimean Tatar leader
The illegal sentencing of Akhtem Chiygoz, a Ukrainian citizen and deputy head of the Crimean Tatar representative assembly (Mejlis), to 8 years in jail by the Moscow-installed authorities in Crimea caused indignation and protest across...
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Euromaidan Press has launched a weekly newsletter to raise the global awareness of the systemic human rights violations the Kremlin regime commits against the citizens of Ukraine. It aims to mobilize the efforts of activists, diplomats, opinion...
Crimean Tatar leader convicted while life of FSB-abducted Ukrainian under threat: LMPG newsletter #1
Euromaidan Press has launched a weekly newsletter to raise the global awareness of the systemic human rights violations the Kremlin regime commits against the citizens of Ukraine. It aims to mobilize the efforts of activists, diplomats, opinion...
Imam of Iranian Sunni Muslims condemns Russia’s persecution of Crimean Tatars
The problem of the Russian occupation of Crimea and oppression of its indigenous Crimean Tatar people has been recently raised for the first time in the mediascape of Iran, a Middle Eastern regional power traditionally...
“The highest value is the person with a sense of dignity”: letter of activist jailed for Ukrainian flag in Crimea
The Crimean farmer Volodymyr Baluch, sentenced by a Russian occupational court to three years and seven months in colony for the demonstration of his active pro-Ukrainian position, wrote a letter to Ukrainians who do not...
“I am destined to accept this verdict for the whole Crimean Tatar people” – last word of Crimean Tatar leader in political trial
The last word of Akhtem Chiygoz, the deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, in the so-called Supreme Court of the occupied Crimea, was published by his lawyer Nikolai Polozov. The trial against...
“If people forget about freedom, dignity, honor, the world will cease to exist” – man sentenced for Ukrainian flag in occupied Crimea
I won’t say anything now for the court. I’ll say it for the people, not only for those present here now, but also for those outside this building. To begin with, there is actually no...
Political prisoner Ruslan Zeytullaev: on a hunger strike for all Crimean Tatars oppressed by Russia
Ukrainian hostage of the Kremlin and political prisoner Ruslan Zeytullaev announced a hunger strike on 27 July. This day, he was unlawfully sentenced to 15 years in Russian prison. This time, the court increased his...
Letter of relatives of Kremlin’s prisoners and civic activists to EU and NATO leaders
Mr Donald Tusk President of the European Council Mr Antonio Tajani President of the European Parliament Mr Jean-Claude Junker President of the European Commission Ms Federica Mogherini High Representative of the European Union for Foreign...
Relatives of Kremlin hostages appeal to Macron on eve of Putin’s visit to France (Full text in French)
We are saddened that France and her President who recently defeated the Kremlin’s puppet in the election and is a real incarnation of hope of the new Europe, are hosting the person whose regime oppresses...