Six years of occupation have resulted in normal living conditions for only those in Crimea who are loyal to Russia. Crimean Tatars living in their homeland, religious organizations outside of Russian control, and human rights defenders unmask the utopian picture of happy life on the peninsula so painstakingly painted by Russian propaganda. On February 24, 2020, the team at CrimeaSOS released its second publication of “Encyclopedia of Repressions in Crimea Since the Beginning of the Russian Occupation,” which documents the litany of blatant human rights violations that have occurred. Our reporting documents how the Russian occupiers have violated Crimeans’ right to self-determination and freedom of religion as well as deliberately changed the demographics of the region in the six years since the occupation began.

The Russian authorities in Crimea have systematically violated human rights during the past six years of occupation. On February 24, 2020, the team at CrimeaSOS released its second publication of “Encyclopedia of Repressions in Crimea Since the Beginning of the Russian Occupation” which documents the litany of blatant human rights violations that have occurred. Our reporting documents how the Russian occupiers have conducted illegal detentions and searches as well as violating Crimeans’ freedom of speech and assembly.

Yesterday, on October 2, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don (Russia) sentenced Nariman Memedeminov, Crimean Tatar blogger and citizen journalist of the Crimean Solidarity movement, to 2 years and 6 months in a penal settlement and banned him from website management for two years.

The United States of America remains one of the most loyal and devoted friends of Ukraine, Ukraine’s ally and partner. For this, significant credit undoubtedly goes to Her Excellency, Marie Jovanovic.

Freed by the Crimean occupiers, on Tuesday, May 7, Ukrainian citizens, fishermen Ruslan Kondratyuk and Andriy Morozov, received the status of victims in criminal proceedings, guided by the prosecutor’s office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

For 3 weeks nothing is known about the entrepreneur Rashid Yagyaev's fate, Crimean Tatar who disappeared on April 22, .

On Tuesday, May 7, a representative of Ukrainian consulate in the Russian Federation was not allowed to visit the Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Balukh, who is in the ShIZO in correctional colony No.4 of the city of Torzhok, Tver Region.

On Tuesday, May 7, the occupying security forces again detained Yalta journalist and blogger Yevgeny Gaivoronsky.

The de facto investigators in occupied Crimea stated that according to the results of a biological examination, biological samples of the Crimean Tatar activist Edem Bekirov were found on a scotch tape, that was wrapped around ammunition, and a rope that fixed the backpack. According to investigators, all this allegedly belonged to a political prisoner.

The occupying authorities of Crimea freed Ruslan Kondratyuk and Andriy Morozov, two Ukrainian fishermen of the YAMK-0041 vessel, who were illegally detained in September 2018.