~Russia illegally detains 25,000 Kremlin prisoners

According to the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, this is the number of civilians abducted by the Russian Federation

The ZMINA Human Rights Centre has found that at least 21 prisoners require urgent medical care and may die unless they receive it.

During the full-scale invasion, the National Police began investigating the enforced disappearance of 8,800 people. Russian Children's Ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova claims Russia has illegally abducted over 700,000 children from Ukraine.

The Media Initiative for Human Rights has identified about one hundred places where abducted civilians are held.

The Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Qırım) confirms 217 illegally imprisoned Ukrainian citizens, 132 of whom are Qırımtatarlar.

During the full-scale war, 3,330 Ukrainian citizens were returned to Ukraine, including 160 civilians.

The ZMINA Human Rights Centre reports.

The 'Supreme Court' of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic found Leonid Shkilniuk, a marine from the 501st Separate Marine Infantry Battalion, guilty of attempted murder organised by a group of people based on ideological and political hatred and cruel treatment of civilians. Shkilniuk allegedly fired at the car with a hand-held Kalashnikov machine gun. The civilian was not injured as he had left the shooting area in time.

Leonid Shkilniuk was detained during the defence of Mariupol in the spring of 2022. Prisoners of war cannot be tried for crimes other than war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law — wilful murder, torture and inhuman treatment, wilful infliction of unnecessary suffering, causing serious bodily injury or impairment of health, attacking civilians, deportation or unlawful transfer of civilians, use of prohibited weapons, etc.

The Crimean Human Rights Group reports.

The Henichesk District Court sentenced local businessman Nariman Abliazov to three and a half years, with one year in prison, and then serving the term in a strict regime penal colony. He was charged with allegedly participating in the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion and the water, energy and food blockade of Crimea (Qırım) in 2015. On June 1, 2022, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognised the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion as a "terrorist organisation" and banned it from the territory of the Russian Federation.

Nariman Abliazov was arrested in Henichesk on September 4, 2023. He is an entrepreneur, public figure and philanthropist actively supporting the preservation of Crimean Tatar identity.

Crimean Solidarity reports.

Civil journalist and former businessman Marlen (Suleiman) Asanov was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 2020 in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. He was arrested in Bakhchisarai (Bağçasaray) in 2016.

He is now being held in a penal colony in Mordovia, some 1700 km from Crimea (Qırım). Asanov's lawyer requested that he be transferred closer to Crimea so that Marlen's family could visit him in the colony. The Bakhchisarai District Court refused the request. Asanov's parents, wife and four minor children are waiting for him at home.

Crimean Solidarity reports.

Edem Smaiilov, the former head of the 'Topchikoy' religious Muslim community, was arrested in Bakhchisarai (Bağçasaray) in 2018 in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. In 2020, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison. He was then transferred to a strict regime colony in the Kostroma region.

Edem's health is deteriorating due to constant confinement to the barracks, the punishment cell. His eyesight is failing and his teeth are deteriorating. He suffers from the noise in the colony. The Crimean Muslim cannot shop in the prison shop, call his relatives or receive visits and parcels more often than once every six months because of his stay in the punishment cell. He does not receive any new books, either from the library or from his wife.

Crimean Solidarity writes.

Ruslan Nagaiev was detained in Crimea (Qırım) on June 10, 2019. On August 16, 2021, the military 'court' of the Southern District issued a verdict against 'Hizb ut-Tahrir'. The military appeal court in Vlasys, Moscow Region, upheld the decision. 

Ruslan Nagaiev was transferred to Verkhnouralsk in the Chelyabinsk region of the Russian Federation. He is in prison there. His wife told Crimean Solidarity that her husband suffers from high blood pressure and kidney pain, but has not received any treatment in prison.  His lawyer, Yevgen Horoshko, said that the prisoner had appealed to the prison administration to provide medical care, but that his request had been ignored.