In 2023, 46 cases of fines were recorded, 13 against Crimean Tatars. During the same period in 2022, 40 fines were recorded, and in 2021 – 141.
The total amount of fines was 1,455,500 rubles (436,650 hryvnias).
Most of the fines relate to the so-called article on discrediting the entire Russian Federation.
Let us recall that the Crimean Tatar Resource Center presented an analysis of human rights violations in occupied Crimea for 2023. According to the organization, during the reporting period, Russian security forces conducted 65 searches, 173 arrests/detentions and 186 interrogations, interviews and conversations. The total number of arrests for 2023 is 217. Most of the violations by the occupiers occur among representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people. More details can be found in our report.