The complex of repressive measures used in occupied Crimea against Ukrainian citizens is analyzed in detail in the article A Set of Additional Punitive Actions. How Pro-Ukrainian or Anti-war Position Is Persecuted in Occupied Crimea, published by the media outlet Graty concerning the data of the Mission’s analysts.
The article describes in detail how the persecution takes place and what tools of intimidation the occupiers use against activists, human rights defenders, and ordinary citizens who oppose the aggressive policy of the Kremlin.
The material also provides examples of unlawful practices of detention and accusation of Ukrainian citizens, which is essentially a set of additional punitive actions, including administrative arrests, beatings and searches during detention, firing from work, online hate speech, and the dissemination of videos of detainees being forced to commit acts degrading to human dignity.
“The Russian occupation authorities of Crimea have drawn up more than 900 administrative reports for so-called discrediting the Russian army and almost 600 for ‘demonstrating Nazi and extremist attributes’. These charges are regularly brought against people who speak out against Russian aggression, publish information about Russian war crimes, or even listen to Ukrainian songs, wear blue and yellow clothes, or post pictures in these colors. Crimeans are urged to report such people, and some bloggers publish videos of the detention of ” offenders” and their apologies, which are handed over to them by the security forces,” states journalist and human rights activist Anastasiia Moskvychova in the article.
Coverage of this topic is essential, as such materials draw attention to the problems of occupied Crimea, the crimes of the occupiers, for which they will definitely be held accountable, and the resistance of Ukrainian citizens to the occupation. It is crucial to research the situation on the occupied peninsula and fill the information space with content about Crimea because Crimea is Ukraine.
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