Eskender Bariiev told students about human rights violations and war crimes in the occupied Crimea

During the event, Eskender Bariiev spoke about systemic human rights violations in the occupied Crimea, including arbitrary detentions, torture and war crimes committed by Russia both on the peninsula and in the newly occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.

In his speech, the Chairman of the Board of the CTRC spoke about:

The diagram ‘Victims of the Occupation of Crimea’ developed by the CTRC – visual statistics on the number of political prisoners and those prosecuted in criminal cases, the dead and missing during the occupation of the peninsula.

CTRC criteria for defining political prisoners – this category includes people who lived in Crimea, had connections with the peninsula, were detained there, or whose case is directly related to Crimea.

Trends in human rights violations and war crimes in the occupied Crimea and the newly occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions: detention, abduction, torture, searches, arrests, violations of the right to health, to a fair trial, transfer, fines, military exercises, etc.

Bariiev stressed that every year of occupation plays in favour of Russia, as a new generation is growing up that does not know Crimea as Ukrainian, because it has been exposed to information manipulation and systemic propaganda since childhood.

‘The war did not begin in 2022, but in 2014 with the occupation of Crimea. We warned that Russia would not stop with Crimea. For them, it is a strategic territory for further aggression,’ – the speaker noted.
Eskender Bariiev concluded by emphasising that the root cause of all human rights violations in Crimea is the occupation itself. Therefore, the issue of liberation of the peninsula remains the key to restoring justice and protecting human rights.

The Crimean Tatar Resource Center sincerely thanks the students of the Students League of the Ukrainian Bar Association for their active participation, interesting questions and not being indifferent to the topic of the occupation of Crimea. We were happy to share our experience and will continue to work together to protect human rights and restore justice.