~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 217 illegally imprisoned Ukrainian citizens, 132 of whom are Qırımtatarlar.

During the full-scale war, 3,330 Ukrainian citizens were returned to Ukraine, including 160 civilians.

One of the captured Ukrainian soldiers from the Azov Regiment, 55-year-old Oleksandr Ishchenko, has died in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. 

Babel says, referring to the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

The circumstances of the Ukrainian's death are not known. It is known that on July 31, Ishchenko was not transported from pre-trial detention to a court hearing, and his lawyer informed the court that the soldier had died.

The Azov press service told Suspilne that the date of the soldier's death on the certificate was July 22, 2024. The medical certificate was issued three days later, on July 25. The document reads, "The cause of death has not been established due to putrefactive changes in the organs and tissues of the corpse."

His wife Olena said that Oleksandr was a sailor. He returned from a voyage a few days before the full-scale invasion and joined the Azov Regiment ten days later, on February 17, 2022, becoming a driver.

The date of his arrest is unknown, but it was definitely during active hostilities in Mariupol. His family found out he was in captivity from a photo, but they were not allowed to speak to him. He was held for a year in a Donetsk detention centre and then transferred to Rostov.

Oleksandr Ishchenko was one of 24 prisoners of war against whom the Russians started so-called 'trials' for alleged participation in a 'terrorist organisation' (Azov has been recognised as a terrorist organisation in Russia — ed).

The Southern District Military Court has sentenced Serhii Yerzhov to 18 years in prison for the explosion of a gas pipeline near Yalta.

The Crimean Human Rights Group informs. 

He will spend the first four years of his sentence in prison and the rest in a strict regime colony. Yerzhov was also fined RUB 500,000.

According to the Russian 'investigation', from February 24 to November 8, Yerzhov was in the Dnipropetrovsk region and allegedly had contact with a Security Service of Ukraine officer who 'provided him with extensive knowledge, practical skills and abilities in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices'.

The Russians claimed that on June 23, 2023, an explosion allegedly occurred at a gas pipeline in the village of Koreiiz, Yalta municipality. About 500 people were allegedly left without gas for a day.

The so-called 'Kyiv District Court' in Simferopol (Aqmescit) has extended the pre-trial detention of civilian journalists Rustem Osmanov and Aziz Azizov until November 4, 2024. On the same day, the court extended the pre-trial detention of activists Memet Liumanov and Mustafa Abduramanov. 

The prisoners' lawyers informed Crimean Solidarity.

The pre-trial detention of Enver Khalilaiev, Nariman Ametov, Ali Mamutov and Vakhid Mustafaiev, the imam of the mosque in the village of Lobanovo, was also extended. 

"Despite the lack of evidence and reasons for extending the detention, the court refused to change the measure of detention," said lawyer Oleksii Ladin.

In addition, the defence filed a request for relatives to be allowed to attend the trial. 

It is recalled that on the morning of March 5, security forces searched the homes of ten Crimean Tatars in the Bakhchisaray (Bağçasaray) and Dzhankoy (Canköy) districts of Crimea (Qırım). On the same day, the court placed four of them under pre-trial detention: Crimean Tatar activists Memet Liumanov, Aziz Azizov, Rustem Osmanov and Mustafa Abduramanov. They were sent to Detention Centre No. 2 until May 4, 2024. 

In temporarily occupied Sevastopol (Aqyar), a 42-year-old resident is on trial for listening to a Ukrainian song.

The Crimean Human Rights Group reports. 

The song in question is Oi, u luzi chervona kalyna (Oh, there is a red viburnum in the meadow, a Ukrainian patriotic march — ed.).

The Russians claim that the man was 'loudly listening to the unofficial anthem of Ukrainian nationalists'. The man worked at a local medical facility. 

The Russians also claim that the Sevastopol resident shouted Ukrainian nationalist slogans.

Previously, the man had received an administrative report under the article on 'propaganda and public demonstration of Nazi attributes'. The so-called 'Leninsky District Court of Sevastopol' detained him for 15 days.

The occupation court illegally sentenced a member of the Crimean Tatar battalion named after Noman Çelebicihan to 3.5 years in a strict regime colony.

The Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea informed Svidomi.

The man allegedly "was provided with firearms and carried out checks on persons and vehicles at checkpoints on the border with Crimea, guarded the objects of the illegal armed group", the Russians claim. 

The battalion is a volunteer armed formation created in early 2016 during the blockade of the administrative border with occupied Crimea. 

In Crimea, at least 18 people have been sentenced in the 'Noman Çelebicihan battalion case'.