“Crimean Tatars in Crimea, and especially those opposing Crimea’s illegal annexation or expressing dissent, are being subjected to numerous patterns of serious violations of human rights, persecution, discrimination, and stigmatisation by the Russian occupying authorities”, said Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, in a report published on Tuesday 18 April.
This situation is all the more worrying, she adds, as it is “reinforced by a culture of...