~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, 3,767 Ukrainian citizens, including 167 civilians, were returned to Ukraine.

On November 21, the FSB (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) detained the 61-year-old editor-in-chief of the Crimean Tatar children's magazine "Armanchyk" Edie Muslimova.

Krym Realii reports.  

Edie Muslimova was abducted by three men near the home of her 91-year-old mother. She was held in pre-trial detention for 36 hours and interrogated by the FSB. She was then released. The FSB explained that they had detained the woman because they had "received a message".

According to CrimeaSOS, Edie Muslimova's detention bears the hallmarks of enforced disappearance. The children's magazine "Armanchyk" has been published in Crimea (Qırım) since 2011 and appears monthly. Its mission is to popularise the Crimean Tatar language and culture.

Ihor Protokovylо was a member of the Nova Kakhovka City Council. In April 2024, Russians kidnapped him from his home and took him to an unknown destination, the ZMINA Human Rights Center reports. 

He was accused of allegedly handing over the location of Russian troops to the Security Service of Ukraine in 2022.

The occupation Kherson Regional Court found Protokovylо guilty of espionage. The man is to serve his 12-year illegal imprisonment in a strict regime colony.

The ZMINA Human Rights Center reports. 

Anton Saiun and Valentyn Kharlamov are servicemen of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade. Russian security forces accused them of allegedly shooting a civilian man at positions near the Illich Steel and Iron Works. He died on the spot from multiple injuries on March 17, 2022.

In a video published by the Russian Investigative Committee, Ukrainian infantrymen say that they shot the man because they mistook him for an enemy spy. This video was most likely recorded under pressure.

The so-called supreme court in the temporarily occupied Donetsk convicted Ukrainian prisoners of war for cruel treatment of civilians and murder committed by an organised group on the grounds of political and ideological hatred. They were sentenced to 25.5 years in prison.

The ZMINA Human Rights Center reports.

The Military Court of Appeal in the village of Vlasikha, Moscow region of the Russian Federation, upheld the sentence of Ukrainian Oleksandr Lytvynenko of allegedly preparing terrorist acts in the occupied Crimea (Qırım), illegal possession of weapons and high treason. 

In June 2024, Oleksandr Lytvynenko was sentenced to 9.5 years in Russia. He was found guilty of allegedly preparing terrorist acts and illegal possession of weapons and explosives. 

Oleksandr Lytvynenko had a Russian passport, so in addition to terrorism, he was accused of treason in Russia. 

The ZMINA Human Rights Center informs that every fifth person convicted of terrorism in Russia in 2023 is a Ukrainian. 

Crimean Solidarity reports this with reference to the wife of the political prisoner.

The Southern District Military Court in Russia, despite numerous statements by the defence about Suleimanov's health, decided to send him to a strict regime colony for 12 years in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case.

Amet Suleimanov suffers from chronic heart problems. He has also been diagnosed with retinal vascular disease, which disrupts the blood supply to the retina and can lead to blindness if left untreated.

He was on the waiting list for heart valve replacement surgery, but the Ministry of Health in the temporarily occupied Crimea (Qırım) removed him from the list.

Crimean Solidarity reports.

Oleh Fedorov is an entrepreneur from Bakhchysarai (Bağçasaray). In 2022, the Southern District Military Court sentenced Fedorov to 13 years in prison in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case.

In 2024, the Court of Appeal upheld the sentence. Oleh Fedorov was transferred from the prison in Yelets, Lipetsk region, to a penal colony.

Crimean Solidarity reports.

In 2020, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Seiran Saliyev to 16 years in prison in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case.

In October 2022, Saliiev was transferred to a colony in the Tula region of Russia. The relatives of the political prisoner are not allowed to meet with him. Since July 2024, Saliiev has been held in a barracks in the colony under strict detention conditions. Russian security forces characterise him as a "malicious violator" of the prison conditions.