In 2023, 55 sentences were recorded, of which 25 were against representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people. This is stated in the analysis of human rights violations in occupied Crimea by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.
The occupiers continued to impose huge sentences on political prisoners ranging from 4 to 20 years in jail. The first years of the sentence are ordered to be served in prisons, where conditions of detention are much more difficult.
Political prisoners were accused of involvement in the organizations banned in the Russian Federation Hizb ut-Tahrir, Jehovah’s Witnesses, for participation in the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion, for evading conscription into the armed forces of the Russian Federation, for justifying terrorism on social networks, promoting terrorism, for high treason and the like.
We remind you 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.