After the occupation of Crimea in 2014, the Russian Federation began repressions and persecutions of Crimean Tatars. As of today, 80 of the at least 105 Ukrainian political prisoners are Crimean Tatars in Russian and Crimean prisons. Many were transferred from the occupied Crimea to Russia. Among them is Crimean Tatar civic journalist and political prisoner Seyran Saliyev.

Seyran Saliyev expressed his separation from Crimea in pictures he handed over from the pre-trial detention center. 

ZMINA.Human Rights Centre publishes drawings from behind bars.