Human rights activists record more than 10 thousand human rights violations in Crimea

07 December, 14:25

On December 10, the world celebrates International Human Rights Day. On this day in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted during the third session of the UN General Assembly. This document proclaimed fundamental civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights at the international level and thus established their standards. However, not all countries adhere to the principles of the Declaration. In particular, after the occupation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, the human rights situation on the peninsula has been steadily deteriorating, including religious freedom.

This was reported by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center (CTRC).

After the occupation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, thousands of activists were repressed for their civic position. Criminal cases have been opened, detentions, searches and arrests are systematically carried out, people have forcefully 'disappeared', and raids are conducted to check literature on religious topics.

The indigenous Crimean Tatar people are in a particularly difficult situation and are subjected to repression. According to the CTRC, the number of political prisoners and those prosecuted in criminal cases has reached 371 over the entire period of occupation of Crimea, 229 of whom are representatives of the Crimean Tatar people.

Russia, in violation of international law, continues to carry out mass repressions and exert pressure on Crimean Tatars and pro-Ukrainian activists on the Crimean peninsula. According to the CTRC, in 2017-2024, the following were recorded on the peninsula:

519 searches (362 against Crimean Tatars)

1599 detentions (1238 against Crimean Tatars)

1554 interrogations (1136 against Crimean Tatars)

1579 arrests (1116 against Crimean Tatars)

3418 violations of the right to a fair trial (2137 against Crimean Tatars)

628 violations of the right to health (424 against Crimean Tatars)

404 transfers (317 against Crimean Tatars).

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.

The representatives of the CTRC remind Ukrainian society of the occupation of Crimea, human rights violations on the peninsula committed by the occupiers, the systemic repression of the Russian Federation against the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar peoples, and the fact that after 11 years, the situation has become worse.

Moreover, this practice is spreading to the occupied territories of Ukraine - Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, where the occupiers are using the same methods to intimidate people.

It should be noted that the Crimean Tatar Resource Center not only records human rights violations but also systematically informs the international community about the crimes of the Russian Federation in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Tags: #Crimean Tatars #Human Rights #Russian occupation of Crimea