Now, according to the Crimean Tatar Resource Centre, 156 political prisoners of Crimea are serving their sentences in Russian colonies, 99 of them are representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people.
We would like to remind that a total of 336 political prisoners and those prosecuted in criminal ‘cases’ for the period of occupation of Crimea were recorded, 219 of them are representatives of the Crimean Tatar people. More detailed information about the Kremlin prisoners can be obtained from the clickable diagram ‘Victims of the occupation of Crimea’, which is updated on a regular basis on the CTRC website.
According to the CTRC, this category consists of 5 subcategories depending on the status of the persecuted:
– sentenced and serve terms in colonies (156, 99 – Crimean Tatars);
– have restrictions or on probation (41, 24 – Crimean Tatars);
– in pre-trial detention facilities (51, 35 – Crimean Tatars);
– released (55, 34 – Crimean Tatars);
– persecuted (33, 27 – Crimean Tatars).