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UkrInform: Ukraine at OSCE raises issue of journalists illegally held in occupied Crimea

Ukraine has called on the OSCE member states and the OSCE Office for Media Freedom to facilitate the release of all civic journalists and other media …
UkrInform

Halya Coynash: Russia wants to imprison blind Crimean for 20 years

Russia’s Military Court of Appeal in Vlasikha has overturned a ruling which would have allowed Crimean political prisoner Oleksandr Sizikov to find …
Halya Coynash

UA.TV: Arbitrary detentions of Crimean Tatars

Third illegal detention of Crimean Tatars in the occupied Crimean over the past seven days. Shocking video recently appeared on social media: the …
UA.TV

US, Germany call on Russia to release all Crimean political prisoners

The United State continues to receive reports of serious abuses in Russia-occupied Crimea and calls on Russia to release all Crimean political …
Interfax-Ukraine

Zelensky enacts sanctions against those involved in Duma elections, human rights violations in Crimea

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed four decrees on the imposition of sanctions against individuals and legal entities involved, in …
Interfax-Ukraine

Halya Coynash: Death sentence against Crimean Tatar civic journalist

The ‘judges’ who sentenced Amet Suleimanov to 12 years’ harsh regime imprisonment on Oct. 29 are well aware that the first months would likely kill …
Halya Coynash

Halya Coynash: Activist faces ‘terrorism’ charges for defending Crimean Tatars

Olga Smirnova, a political activist from St. Petersburg, has been charged with ‘justifying terrorism’ over a picket in defence of four recognized …
Halya Coynash

Russia’s court sentences 4 Crimean Tatars to 12-17 years in prison

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don within the “Hizb ut-Tahrir case” sentenced the participants of the so-called “third group of …
Interfax-Ukraine

Halya Coynash: Russia acts against Crimean Tatars the same way Stalin did

Verdicts (sentences) are due on Oct. 29 in the ‘trial’ of two sons of a renowned Crimean Tatar historian and their uncle, as well as of a civic …
Halya Coynash

UkrInform: Switzerland expands sanctions against Russia over occupation of Crimea

The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of Switzerland (SECO) imposed sanctions on eight more people over actions that undermine the territorial …
UkrInform

Halya Coynash: Russia excludes Ukrainian from the census in Crimea

While constantly demanding official status for the Russian language in Ukraine and claiming that Russian speakers face ‘discrimination’, Russia has …
Halya Coynash

Halya Coynash: Mass detentions and fines for trying to attend a trial in Crimea

‘Judges’ from a Russian-controlled court in occupied Crimea spent Oct. 26 imposing fairly large fines for entirely fabricated ‘infringements’ by …
Halya Coynash

UkrInform: Ukraine opens proceedings over arrest of 21 activists in Simferopol

The Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol has launched criminal proceedings over the illegal arrest of …
UkrInform

Kyiv not Kiev: UK Ambassador to Ukraine on Crimea Platform, sanctions

The Crimea Platform should not be led by any other country than Ukraine, and Ukraine should be the narrator of the actual problems in Crimea, so that …
Kyiv not Kiev

UkrInform: Latvian foreign minister on development of the Crimea Platform

The Latvian foreign minister has spent a long time in office. The accumulated experience allows him to see more deeply the landscape of the existing …
UkrInform

Halya Coynash: Lawyer detained in Crimea and ordered to strip naked

Edem Semedlyaev, one of the lawyers tirelessly defending political prisoners and other victims of repression in occupied Crimea, was detained on Oct. …
Halya Coynash

UA.TV news from Oct. 25

Ukraine hopes the UN to participate in the Crimean Platform. Normandy Four meeting in progress. Military Expert: NATO benefits from Ukraine’s …
UA.TV

UkrInform: Ukraine hopes UN will join Crimea Platform

Ukraine expects UN leadership to take a more active approach towards countering Russia’s ongoing military aggression. Read more here.
UkrInform
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