As of the end of March, 114 people were deprived of their freedom by the occupiers as part of politically motivated or religious criminal prosecution in Crimea.

Ukrinform writes about this, citing data from a human rights group on the human rights situation in Crimea for March 2021..

" Five more people are restricted in movement: three are under supervision and cannot leave the occupied territory, two are under house arrest, "

At the same time, it is noted that the defendants in this case are accused of involvement in Islamic organizations or of promoting the activities of organizations that are recognized as terrorist or extremist in the Russian Federation, but are not such from the point of view of Ukrainian legislation..

In addition, at the end of March, 16 people (including journalist Vladislav Esipenko) are in prison in the "

Also, according to human rights activists, at the end of March, six people were imprisoned on charges of participation in the battalion of Noman Chelebidzhikhan..

According to the Crimean Human Rights Group, at the end of March 2021, as part of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Crimea, five people were imprisoned, four more were restricted in movement: three are under house arrest, one under recognizance not to leave..

The review also says that the occupiers accept torture in relation to prisoners.. In particular, according to the Crimean human rights group, journalist Esipenko, who was detained on March 10, 2021, FSB officers tortured with electric current and strangled with a plastic bag in order to obtain the confessions necessary for the investigation.. And these testimonies were also used in a staged interview with the pro-Russian channel "