At least 102 Ukrainian citizens are currently imprisoned in occupied Crimea on charges of "sabotage and espionage".
This is stated in the monitoring review of the Crimean Human Rights Group for April-June 2025.
Citizens of Ukraine, illegally detained by the enemy, were abducted in Zaporizhzhia or Kherson regions after the full-scale invasion and taken to pre-trial detention centers.
"In such cases, the Russian FSB accuses the detainees of 'preparing sabotage, storing weapons and espionage' during the detention. In these cases, illegal methods of investigation, the use of torture and psychological pressure to obtain confessions, violation of the presumption of innocence, and the dissemination of staged videos with "confessions" by the Russian FSB through the Russian media have been recorded," the CHRG emphasizes.
In the monitoring review, Charaz Akimov from Yalta, whose case was considered in the occupied Supreme Court of Crimea, was illegally sentenced to five years in prison. Russian occupiers last year detained the man for allegedly corresponding in Telegram and accused him of "cooperation with a foreign organization on a confidential basis."
The trial of the defendants of the second Dzhankoy group in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case has reached the final stage. On April 15, the parties held a debate in Rostov-on-Don, and the next meeting, at which a decision in the case is expected, is scheduled for April 28.
Crimean journalists in Russian colonies have not received qualified medical care for years, although they have serious health problems.
Crimean political prisoner and journalist from Kherson region Serhiy Tsygipa is under constant pressure in colony #3 in Skopin, Ryazan region.
Олександра Горст