Since the occupation of Crimea in 2014, the lives of Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians and all residents of the peninsula who do not support Russia have changed dramatically. The Russian occupation authorities have effectively turned Crimea into a zone of repression and fear.
Activists and ordinary citizens are forced to keep silent through trumped-up cases, arrests and abductions. In Russian detention centers, people are tortured with electric shocks, suffocated with bags, and beaten to extract “confessions” to crimes they did not commit.
People are punished even for posts on social networks or blue and yellow nails, and any disagreement with the occupation authorities is equated with “extremism”…
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center has recorded at least
398 political prisoners and those persecuted in criminal “cases”, 241 of them are representatives of the Crimean Tatar people.
61 killed, 29 of whom were representatives of the Crimean Tatar people.
25 victims of enforced disappearances, 18 of whom were representatives of the Crimean Tatar people.
In total, in 2017-2024, 10,018 violations of fundamental human rights were recorded in the occupied Crimea, 6,730 of which were against members of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people. And unfortunately, the numbers are only growing, and the fates of hundreds of people are behind them.
Occupation is not just political control, it is a systematic destruction of rights and freedoms. Therefore, the struggle for human rights is a struggle for deoccupation!
Crimea is Ukraine.