The annexation of Crimea in 2014 marked the beginning of merciless repressions against the inhabitants of the peninsula who disagreed with the new government, primarily the Crimean Tatars. Criminal cases, kidnappings, tortures, and long prison terms have become a grim…
“According to preliminary data, about 90% of conscription notices in Crimea were received by Crimean Tatars. At the same time, Crimean Tatars make up 13-15% of the population of the peninsula. Such a scale of mobilization can lead to a…
The Crimean Human Rights Group and Крим.Реалії report that on September 2, 2022, the Russian-controlled Kievskiy District Court of Simferopol sentenced Crimean Tatars Ruslan Ablurakhmanov and Ayder Umerovaya to 5 years in a strict regime colony for participation in the…
On April 4, 2022, the Graty news agency reported the arrest of Rustem Gugurik, a Crimean Tatar from the Kherson region. The FSB accuses him of participating in the Crimean Tatar volunteer battalion, which has long been gone. On the…
In 2017 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination acknowledged the facts of discrimination of the Crimean Tatars on ethnic grounds, and expressed their concerns regarding violation of rights of the Crimean Tatars in the annexed Crimea. Ban…
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) has published its assessment of discrimination against Crimean Tatars in the Russia-controlled Crimean peninsula and Russia’s compliance with the Committee’s previous recommendations published in 2017. The Committee’s experts once…
On May 18, 1944 by the decision of the government of the USSR the whole Crimean Tatar peoples were deported from the peninsula of Crimea to the countries of Central Asia. Only 50 years later with the dissolution of the…
Short movies about persecutions against Crimean Tatars from the project “Sentsov list” were presented in Brussels in October 2018; specially for this presentation ADC Memorial translated some of the movies into English. On 14 May 2018, Ukrainian film director Oleg…
Joint press release FIDH and Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU) (Paris) On March 3, 2016, the Supreme Court of the annexed Crimean Republic will consider banning Mejlis, the highest representative body of the Crimean Tatar community, accused of “extremist…
The topic of the UN Forum on Minority Issues that took place in Geneva on 24025 November, 2015, was the protection of minorities in criminal justice system. In the joint statement ADC Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties noted numerous…
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