by admin_HRWF | Mar 6, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Jarrod Lopez (*) HRWF (05.03.2020) – On 5 March, the Dzhankoysky District Court of the Republic of Crimea convicted Sergey Filatov and sentenced him to six years in prison. He is the first one of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Crimea to be convicted...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 14, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Halya Coynash KHPG (13.11.2019) – https://bit.ly/2pj1Jr1 – “Does it not strike you as strange that in the 23 years Crimea was under Ukrainian rule, there were no ‘extremists’ nor ‘terrorists’, and no ‘acts of terrorism’, but as soon as Russia...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 15, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Russia has dangerous construction plans for a site in occupied Crimea on the UNESCO World Heritage List, with one of the reasons linked with Moscow’s attempts to rewrite its own history. UKRINFORM (10.09.2019) – https://bit.ly/32gXavF – As UNESCO explains,...
by admin_HRWF | Apr 17, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Halya Coynash Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (17.04.2019) – https://bit.ly/2VLQDG0 – Armed searches of both a mosque and the home of the Imam were carried out on 15 April in the Balaclava region of occupied Crimea, with the Imam, Rustem Abilev...
by admin_HRWF | Apr 8, 2019 | Crimea, Muslims
– Human Rights Without Frontiers is concerned that Russia might follow the example of China with its “reeducation centers” in which 1 million Muslims are indoctrinated – RISU (04.08.2019) – https://bit.ly/2Ihaj0t- The Kremlin-controlled authorities...
