Repressions in the occupied territories of Ukraine continue – CTRC report for 2022

On Tuesday, January 17, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center presented an analysis of human rights violations in the occupied Crimea for 2022. According to the organization, during the reporting period, Russian security forces conducted 50 searches, 121 detentions, and 137 interrogations, interviews and conversations. The total number of arrests for 2022 is 193. Most of the violations by the occupiers fall on representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people. This practice has become systemic in the peninsula.

The press conference was attended by the Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Chairman of the Department for Legal and Foreign Affairs of  Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Eskender Bariiev, Communications Manager of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center Tatyana Podvorniak, lawyer of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center Volodymyr Liashenko, wife of a political prisoner Victoriia Huhuryk and lawyer Lilia Hemedzhi.