~ 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, 3330 Ukrainian citizens were returned to Ukraine, including 160 civilians.
Appellate 'court' approves fine for QIRIM newspaper
The Kyivskyi district 'court' in Simferopol did not accept the appeal of the representatives of the newspaper 'QIRIM'. It approved a fine of 300 thousand rubles (about 3 thousand dollars — ed.) for discrediting the Russian armed forces.
Crimean Solidarity reports.
Svidomi has already reported on the persecution of the editor-in-chief of the QIRIM newspaper, Bekir Mamutov, in the temporarily occupied Crimea. He was accused of discrediting the Russian army and spreading blatantly false information under the guise of reliable information.
On June 7, the same Kyivskyi district сourt in Simferopol fined the editorial board of the Crimean Tatar newspaper QIRIM for 300 thousand rubles under the protocol on 'discrediting' the Russian armed forces.
Political prisoner Riza Omerov transferred to a colony in the Chuvash Republic of the Russian Federation
Crimean Solidarity reported this.
Crimean Tatar Riza Omerov was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in 2021 in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. He was found guilty by the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. Riza Omerov was to spend the first two years in a Minusinsk prison and the next 11 in a penal colony. In March 2002, the Court of Appeal upheld the first instance court's decision.
Political prisoner Eskender Abdulganiev has been transferred from a penal colony in Yugra, Kemerovo region, to a colony in Kemerovo
Crimean Solidarity reported this.
In the colony in Yugra, Eskender Abdulganiev was illegally sent to the punishment isolation cell for 'a tendency to commit constant violations'. As a result, the Crimean Tatar spent five months in the punishment isolation cell — from February 14 to June 21, with a five-day break.
Eskender asked the administration for the contact details of the Human Rights Commissioner for the Kemerovo region and a Public Oversight Commission representative and wanted to meet the Imam (head of the Muslim community, spiritual leader — ed.). These requests were ignored. After that, Eskender was taken away from the 41st colony.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case.
Journalist Serhii Tsyhipa from Nova Kakhovka forced to take Russian passport
His wife informed Zmina Human Rights Centre.
Serhii is being held in the punishment isolation cell of Colony No. 3 in Skopin, Ryazan region. A journalist and writer from Nova Kakhovka, he was abducted in 2022 because of his active pro-Ukrainian position and journalistic activities. On October 6, 2023, the Supreme 'Court' of Crimea sentenced Tsyhipa to 13 years in a maximum security colony, accusing him of 'espionage'.
He has heart and cerebral vascular problems (cerebral atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease).
