~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 67 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, 132 of whom are Qırımtatarlar.

During the full-scale war, 3,956 Ukrainian citizens, including 170 civilians, were returned to Ukraine.

According to the Russians, a resident of Sevastopol (Aqyar), Kostiantyn Horpynchenko, "on the instructions of an SSU officer, purchased components for the manufacture of a homemade incendiary mixture and prepared it at his residence. On the night of October 31, 2023, the defendant, carrying the aforementioned bottles of homemade incendiary mixture, arrived at the scene of the arson of two railway relay cabinets but was unable to complete the crime as security officers stopped his illegal actions".

The Crimean Human Rights Group reported this. 

The man was found guilty of attempting a terrorist attack and collaborating with a foreign state and sentenced to 11 years in a strict regime penal colony, the first 3 years of which were served in prison.

The Southern District Military Court has decided to extend the detention of the Kremlin prisoners until May 3.

This was reported by lawyer Lilia Hemedzhi, according to Crimean Solidarity.

The defence insisted that the reasons for the extension were formal, but the prosecutor pointed out that the defendants could allegedly influence witnesses whose addresses they knew and stressed the severity of the article under which the Crimean Muslims are being tried. The defence objected to this, but the court ignored the objections.

At the court hearing, it was planned to examine the reaction of the Investigative Committee to the results of the inspection of the planting of forbidden literature during the search of the defendants in the case. The prosecutor requested this inspection. During the hearing, the prosecutor presented the decision of the Investigative Committee to refuse to initiate criminal proceedings.

All the defendants are accused of involvement in the activities of the Islamic political party Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned in Russia but allowed in Ukraine and other countries.

Ali Fedorov, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison, has had his sentence extended for the fourth time in the penal colony of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation's penal colony No. 5 in the Udmurt Republic. 

He said this in a letter to his wife, Iryna Fedorova, according to Crimean Solidarity.

"Immediately after my arrival, I was given 10 days, then 15. I did not have time to finish the second period — I was given two more periods of 15 days each," Ali said.

The Crimean prisoner of conscience has not been informed of the reason for the intensification of his detention and placement in solitary confinement. 

Ali (Oleh) Fedorov is an entrepreneur from Bakhchysarai (Bağçasaray). Before his arrest, he participated in information campaigns in support of Crimean Tatar political prisoners and provided financial assistance to the families of political prisoners. 

On February 17, 2021, during mass searches of Crimean Tatars in Crimea, Russian FSB officers came to Oleh Fedorov and another resident of Bakhchysarai (Bağçasaray), Ernest Ibrahimov. The Crimean Tatars were detained. The men were sentenced for allegedly taking part in the activities of the Islamic political party Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Human rights defender Riza Izetov, sentenced by Russia to 19 years' imprisonment, has been in the punishment cell of Sakha Republic's penal colony No. 1 since December 6, 2024. 

Crimean Solidarity writes about this, citing the words of the political prisoner's mother.

On March 10, 2022, the Southern District Military Court sentenced human rights defender Riza Izetov to 19 years' imprisonment, the first five years of which will be served in a maximum security prison. The remainder of his sentence will be served in a maximum security colony. The court also sentenced him to one and a half years of restricted liberty after his release. 

The Crimean Tatar was accused of organising the activities of the political party Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Political prisoner Medzhyt Abdurakhmanov has been transferred to a colony in Chuvashia, where the conditions of his detention have been made more severe.

This was reported by Crimean Solidarity.

The reason for this punishment is unknown. The political prisoner informed his family of the administration's decision by telephone — he was allowed to make one call.

"He said that he would be kept in the temporary detention facility for six months, but the reason for this is unknown. At the moment, we have no contact with him, and I don't know anything else," said Elmira Abdurakhmanova, the political prisoner's wife. 

Earlier, the Russians sentenced Medzhyt to 12 years in prison for alleged involvement in the political party Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Political prisoner Teimur Abdullaiev, sentenced to 16.5 years in prison, has been placed in solitary confinement in the penal colony of Salavat, Bashkortostan, for not greeting the head of the colony during prayers.

This was reported by Crimean Solidarity.

"The head of the institution demanded that we interrupt the prayer to greet him, thus preventing us from observing the religious rite and violating our rights. But we continued because it is forbidden to interrupt the obligatory prayer, except when it concerns the preservation of life. This must have hurt his pride. He got angry and put us in a punishment cell. We were also forbidden to take the Koran into our cell," the political prisoner said.

Now Abdullaiev suffers from high blood pressure and headaches, his eyesight is deteriorating, and he has lost his hearing due to otitis media. He also regularly suffers from pain in his stomach, liver and teeth.

Teimur Abdullaiev is serving a 16.5-year prison sentence for involvement in the activities of the Islamic political party Hizb ut-Tahrir.