In the past year of the Russian war with Ukraine, 57 Crimean Tatars - political prisoners received convictions. The total term of their imprisonment was almost 700 years, CrymSOS reported.
The European Court of Human Rights accepted the claim from the Ingush branch of the Red Cross, recognized by the Russian authorities as a foreign agent.
The Stavropol garrison military court sentenced Marat Batdyev, a contractor from Stavropol, to 20 days' detention at the guardhouse. He did not come to the firing range to be sent to Ukraine for the war, as he was waiting for the delivery of equipment from relatives.
Alie Murdabayeva, spouse of political prisoner Timur Yalkabov, wrote a complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office, the Public Monitoring Commission for Human Rights and the Public Defender’s Office about the violation of her husband’s rights.
Human rights activists Leyla Yunus and Elshan Hasanov have prepared an updated list of political prisoners in Azerbaijan. It is in accordance with resolution 1900 adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in October 2012.
The human rights organization KrymSOS recorded at least six cases of torture of Crimean Tatar political prisoners in 2022. They also suffer from ill-treatment and inadequate medical care.
In Crimea, the Russian authorities, as part of their mobilization for the war against Ukraine, issued disproportionately more summonses to the Crimean Tatars. The figure is up to 90%, CrymSOS reported.
The US President’s Administration again called on Azerbaijan to release activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev from detention. It was also supported by the head of the Agency for International Development and the former Secretary of State of the United States.
Despite an early refusal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chechnya, the court ordered to issue a certificate of rehabilitation to the local resident Shirvani Hamzatov. He was recognized as a victim of political repression - the man was born into a family deported to Kyrgyzstan in 1944.
The stay in the Grozny remand centre for more than a year and the frequent court hearings worsened the health of Zarema Musayeva. She wrote about this in a letter through the service "FSIN-letter".
The Makhachkala garrison military court refused to consider the claims of representatives of four residents of Dagestan. As fathers of three or more children, they were legally entitled to deferment, but were mobilized and sent to fight against Ukraine.