According to the new report released by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, over the course of the first six months of 2019, there were registered three hundred eighty-one cases of the right to due process violation, two hundred sixty-one of which were in relation to the representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people. There were one hundred seventy-one case registered in the first quarter and two hundred and ten in the second. Compared to the first six months of 2018, the number of violations of the right to a fair trial has dramatically increased from two hundred eighty-six to three hundred eighty-one.
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During this period, courts in the occupied Crimea and Russian Federation reached twenty-four verdicts on criminal “charges”, politically-motivated, as a rule. The same courts ordered to unlawfully detain thirty-seven more people (one in absence). There are registered one hundred thirty-three cases of continuing sentence for Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar political prisoners.
Courts in the occupied Crimea regularly deny the right to a fair trial, reject appeals, do not allow photo and video, carry hearings under the closed doors, do not allow relatives of political prisoners in the courtroom, etc.
The justice system that targets Crimean Tatars and Ukrainian activists, continues to ruin lives of more and more law-abiding citizens.
Overall, over the course of the first six months of 2019, in the occupied Crimea, there were committed seventy-three searches, fifty-five of which targeted the Crimean Tatars. There were also registered sixty-nine detentions and ninety-seven cases of interrogations and “conversations”. Besides, the report estimates two hundred cases of arrests, one hundred thirty-eight of which were in relation to the indigenous people. Among the two hundred cases of arrests, one hundred thirty-three are continuing detention, sixty-seven – new arrests, including those with verdicts.