Currently, according to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, 370
political prisoners and those persecuted in criminal “cases” during
the occupation of Crimea have been recorded, 228 of them are
representatives of the Crimean Tatar people.
More detailed information about the Kremlin’s prisoners can be found in the clickable chart “Victims of the Occupation of Crimea”, which is updated on a regular basis on the CTRC website.
According to the CTRC, this category consists of 5 subcategories
depending on the status of the persecuted person:
– sentenced and serve terms in penal colonies (176, 107 –
Crimean Tatars);
– have restrictions or on probation (49, 25 – Crimean Tatars);
– in a pre-trial detention center (54, 33 – Crimean Tatars);
– released (57, 35 – Crimean Tatars);
– persecuted (34, 28 – Crimean Tatars).