Theme: Crimean Tatar

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…

ADC Memorial supports demands to end political repressions in Crimea, release deputy chairman of the Mejlis Nariman Dzhelyal and other Crimean Tatar activists from prison without delay, and investigate evidence of torture that Dzhelyal’s attorney referred to. Dzhelyal and the…

On May 18, 1944, the Crimean Tatar people were deported en masse from Crimea to remote regions of Central Asia and beyond the Urals. The memory of this event – when a purge descended upon an entire people, when individuals were labeled…

Submissions from civil society will be used for preparing the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights “Effective promotion of the implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic…