For 9 months of 2022, 108 detentions/arrests were recorded in the occupied Crimea, 83 against Crimean Tatars. The number has significantly decreased compared to 2021, then 238 detentions were recorded, in 2020 – 68. This is stated in the analysis of human rights violations in the occupied Crimea of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.
Crimeans were detained:
in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case
in the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion case
in the case of Jehovah's Witnesses
under Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (Public actions aimed at discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation)
under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (Propaganda or public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols)
under Art. 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (Organization of mass simultaneous stay of citizens in public places)
under Art. 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (State betrayal)
under Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Public calls for terrorist activities)
under Art. 205 (Preparation for an act of terrorism)
under Art. Criminal Code Article 282 (Violation of hatred or enmity)
under Art. 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of explosives or explosive devices)
under Art. 280.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Public calls for extremist activity)
Art. 208 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Financing of a terrorist organization)
under Art. 208 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Attempt to participate in an illegal armed formation)
We remind you that earlier the Crimean Tatar Resource Center presented an analysis of human rights violations in the occupied Crimea for 9 months of 2022. According to the organization, during the reporting period, the Russian security forces conducted 25 searches, 108 detentions/arrests and 124 interrogations, interviews and conversations. The total number of arrests in the first 9 months of this year is 138. There were 263 cases of violation of the right to a fair trial, 25 – to the healthcare access. There were also 24 cases of transferring of political prisoners in Crimea. In addition, the analysis contains data on human rights violations in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions during the full-scale war.