Russia recognizes Ukrainian “Crimean Human Rights Group” as undesirable
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The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation declared the activities of the Ukrainian “Crimean Human Rights Group” banned in Russia, after the annexation of Crimea and engaged in monitoring and protecting the rights of Crimeans, including Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar activists.
“It has been established that the activities of the Ukrainian organization constitute a crime against the constitutional order and the security of the Russian Federation,” – declared in the Attorney General.
Now the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation must monitor the “Crimean Human Rights Group” in list foreign and international non-governmental organizations whose activities are recognized as excluded on the territory of Russia. Cooperation with the founders of organizations threatens with criminal punishment.
Now the list, which the Ministry of Justice has been considering since 2015, includes 54 organizations. In 2022, five organizations were recognized as unusual, including the Latvian foundation, the founder of the Important Stories media outlet (previously classified as “foreign agents”).
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The group, created after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, monitors and defends human rights on the peninsula.
The organization recalled that since 2018, the Crimean Human Rights Group has received more than 50 events from Roskomnadzor on the inclusion of its articles in the register of information classified in Russia, and since 2021 its website has been blocked in Crimea.
“Our website has been informing about the situation with the pandemic for many years, how it uses the education system to militarize Crimean children and children. This information is also important for the Crimeans themselves.
Human rights activists, in particular, talk about the lifting of the ban on inciting activists and criminal prosecution after persecution of the Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which was not banned in Ukraine, but was recognized as a resonance in Russia.
The collected information about the violation of the rights of Crimeans is disseminated by human rights activists among international organizations, including the OSCE, the UN and the Council of Europe. The monitoring group conducts reports on the situation involving a person in Crimea.