Crimean Tatars – Кампанія Солідарності з Україною

Deportation, genocide, and Russia’s war against Crimean Tatars

18 May 201918 May 2019

Deportation of the Crimean Tatars. A painting by Crimean Tatar artist Rustem Eminov On May 18, Ukraine marks the anniversary of the deportation of Crimean Tatars from Crimea that took…

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Crimean Tatars – The Nation Stalin Deported

9 Aug 20179 Aug 2017

The Crimean Tatars faced deportation from the peninsula under Stalin in 1944. Today, they are facing a new policy of persecution. The Crimean Tatars have existed as a community for over…

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Chief Rabbi of Ukraine: The world must not ignore the suffering of the Crimean Tatars the way it once ignored ours

Our cry must be heard, so that the horror of the past is not repeated here and now. Our words must ring out because the world is now silent about…

Russia’s Conveyor Belt of Repression in Occupied Crimea

There is no evidence of any terrorist activities in Crimea, yet Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 3 other opponents of annexation are serving huge sentences for supposed terrorism, and the…

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Russian Secret Police terrorizes Crimean Tatar school students in Crimea

Halya Coynash They look for ‘dissidents’ early in Russian-occupied Crimea. On May 27, the day before an exam, FSB officers turned up at a school in Feodosia to grill…

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In Occupied Crimea Repressions of the Tatars continue unabated

The Tatars are the Palestinians Of Europe Exclusive interview by Ukrainian social activist Ilmi Umerov with Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis (Tatar self-governing councils) Ilmi Umerov told about a new…

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Russia Declares War on Crimean Tatars

20 Mar 201620 Mar 2016

Republished below is an personal article by Halya Coynash of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group on the ongoing oppression of the Crimean Tatars since the Russian annexation of Crimea.…

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Russian state terror, torture against Crimean Muslims

24 Feb 201624 Feb 2016

By | Halya Coynash Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Search on Feb 11 Armed searches are continuing in Russian-occupied Crimea with torture methods used against at least one Crimean Tatar. More…

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Tatars block supplies to Crimea, cause shortages of food, necessities

BY NAOMI CRAINE Working people in Moscow-occupied Crimea have faced growing shortages of food and other necessities from a blockade on the Ukrainian side of the peninsula’s border initiated by…

Crimean Tatar leader arrested in new wave of repression

Halya Coynash Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group UPDATE A search by men in masks carrying machine guns began at around 7 a.m. on Friday morning, and is still underway. The…