To date, according to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, 107 political prisoners are serving sentences in colonies, 78 of which are representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people. More detailed information about the prisoners of the Kremlin can be obtained from the clickable chart Victims of the occupation of Crimea, which is updated on a regular basis on the CTRC website.
According to the CTRC, the number of political prisoners and persecuted by the occupying authorities is 266 people, 189 of them are representatives of the Crimean Tatar people. This category consists of 5 components depending on the status of the persecuted:
– convicted and serving their sentences in a colony (107, 78 – Crimean Tatars);
– have a restriction or a probationary period (30, 19 – Crimean Tatars);
– in a pre-trial detention center (48, 34 – Crimean Tatars);
– released (49, 31 – Crimean Tatars);
– persecuted (32, 26 – Crimean Tatars).