~Russia illegally detains 25,000 Kremlin prisoners
According to the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, this is the number of civilians abducted by the Russian Federation.
The ZMINA Human Rights Centre has found that at least 21 prisoners require urgent medical care and may die unless they receive it.
During the full-scale invasion, the National Police began investigating the enforced disappearance of 8,800 people. Russian Children's Ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova claims Russia has illegally abducted over 700,000 children from Ukraine.
The Media Initiative for Human Rights has identified about one hundred places where abducted civilians are held.
The Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Qırım) confirms 218 illegally imprisoned Ukrainian citizens, 133 of whom are Qırımtatarlar.
During the full-scale war, 3,235 Ukrainian citizens were returned to Ukraine, including 160 civilians.
The "court of appeal" refused to release seriously ill Crimean Tatar Amet Suleimanov from prison
Crimean Solidarity reports.
The Volodymyr Regional Court refused to release Amet Suleimanov from Bağçasaray, who was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, despite his two diseases that are included in the list of incompatible with the conditions of imprisonment.
His lawyer, Lilia Hemedzhi, reported that doctors in prison No. 2 in Volodymyr illegally examined Amet and issued a conclusion that contradicted the previous diagnoses made to Suleimanov. But the 'court' ignored the previous diagnoses, as well as the conclusion of the independent expert commission on the prisoner's health condition.
Amet Suleimanov was detained in March 2020 regarding the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. The Southern District Military Court sent him to a strict regime colony for 12 years. In March 2024, the Frunze District Court in Vladimir denied his appeal.
In Aluşta, an elderly man was detained for 15 days for speaking Ukrainian in a shop
Krym.Realii reports.
In Aluşta, temporarily occupied Crimea (Qırım), officers of the Russian Interior Ministry's "Centre for Countering Extremism" arrested Anatolii Holiakovych for speaking Ukrainian to a shop assistant. When asked whether he would pay by card or cash, he replied in Ukrainian 'hotivka' (cash), not Russian 'nalichnymi' (cash). This conversation was recorded on surveillance cameras.
The Aluşta city 'court' convicted Anatolii Holiakovych of 'disorderly conduct' and 'discrediting the Russian army'. He was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest and a 30,000 Russian rouble fine.
Anatolii Holiakovych, 61, is now retired. He lives in Crimea and used to work in the Aluşta forestry and hunting enterprise.
Kakhovka journalist Zhanna Kyselova abducted by Russians for the second time
The Kakhovka city territorial community says.
Currently, her whereabouts and condition are unknown. The Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office has opened a criminal investigation into the journalist's repeated abduction.
Zhanna Kyselova was the head of the local newspaper Kakhovska Zoria, which ceased publication after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In September 2022, Zhanna Kyselova was already "arrested" by the Russians and held in a "basement" for almost a month.
The occupation court of Crimea (Qırım) sentenced Serhii Parfenovych and Yurii Herashchenko from Krasnohvardiiske (Kurman — ed.) to seven years imprisonment each.
The Crimean Human Rights Group reports.
Serhii Parfenovych and Yurii Herashchenko are accused of allegedly "organising the activities of an extremist organisation". They belong to the Jehovah's Witnesses congregation. In 2017, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognised the Jehovah's Witnesses as an extremist organisation and banned its activities in the Russian Federation.
Serhii Parfenovych was detained in 2022, and Yurii Herashchenko in 2023. Their cases were prosecuted by 'investigator' Novikov, who was not the first to ' initiate' cases against Jehovah's Witnesses in Crimea.
Kidnapped Melitopol resident Yaroslav Zhuk was sentenced to 14 years behind bars
The Crimean Human Rights Group reports.
The Southern District Military 'court' found Yaroslav Zhuk guilty of 'terrorism' and sentenced him to 14 years imprisonment, with the first four years in prison and the rest of his term in a maximum security colony.
The Russian military abducted Yaroslav Zhuk in June 2022. He was accused of allegedly "attempting to assassinate the director of the city's education department, Olena Shapurova". Zhuk was charged with terrorism and taken to the Simferopol (Aqmescit) detention centre. There, he was tortured with electric shocks, which caused partial hearing loss. His stay in Simferopol was reported by Nariman Dzhelial, who was released from captivity in June 2024.
In March 2023, Yaroslav Zhuk was taken to Rostov-on-Don, where the Southern District Military Court began a trial against the Ukrainian.
