Since Russia invaded Ukraine, simply existing as a Crimean Tatar can result in imprisonment for years

Between 2017 and 2022, more than 7,000 human rights violations were documented in occupied Crimea by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, 5,613 of which were against members of the Crimean Tatar people. Since Russia invaded and annexed Crimea in 2014, repressions have persisted, marked by accusations solely based on ethnicity and the Crimean Tatar's unwavering fight for Ukraine’s territorial integrity. The relentless onslaught against the peninsula's Indigenous people is nothing but a genocide, a researcher says.