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...
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...