Ukrainian court convicts Crimean judge-collaborator

12 years in prison. This is the sentence passed by Ukrainian judges to their colleague in the occupied Crimea.

This was reported by the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol on its website.

The person who was prosecuted, after the annexation of Crimea, took the position of a judge of the Bakhchisaray District Court. It is also known that the traitor took up the cases of Crimean Tatars and passed sentences against them.

We are talking about the events of May 3, 2014, when the Russian administration banned the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev from entering Crimea. In response, Crimeans took to peaceful protests and partially blocked the roads on the Simferopol-Sevastopol, Kherson-Dzhankoy-Feodosia-Kerch, and other highways.

As of now, Ukrainian courts have already handed down about 200 verdicts in this category of criminal cases, and another 580 cases are being heard.

Thus, 150 former judges from Crimea, accused of treason, have been sentenced in absentia.

In the Kherson region, a Russian FSB officer tortured a civilian who was illegally detained in the basement of a college in Henichesk. He was notified of suspicion of violating the laws and customs of war, including ill-treatment, torture and death threats.

The Armenian citizen is suspected of assisting the Russian occupiers - he works in the occupation administration of Kakhovka and helps to nationalize property. The SBU served him a notice of suspicion in absence of aiding the enemy and he faces up to 12 years in prison with confiscation.

The aggressor country Russia has been using torture as a tool to suppress resistance in the occupied territories of Crimea since 2014. The victims are both political prisoners and pro-Ukrainian residents - they are kidnapped, tortured, and held in basements and colonies without medical care.

Олександра Горст