The Crimean peninsula has suffered a spike in human rights violations since it was annexed by Russia from Ukraine last spring according to a Human Rights Watch report published today.
The report details instances of pro-Ukrainian activists and Crimea’s Muslim minority, the Tatars, suffering “unlawful detention, abduction, ill-treatment including torture, and harassment” by pro-Russian paramilitary groups.
On one occasion journalists Sergey Mokrushin and Vladlen Melnikov were detained by a pro-Russian paramilitary group, threatened and beaten for “singing a song featuring profane lyrics about Russian President Vladimir Putin” on their way home from a party in June.
Pro-Ukraine activists Andriy Shekun and Anatoly Kovalksy, …read more
Source: Newsweek
