After the occupation, Crimea turned into the territory, which is full of fear and where there are no mechanisms to protect rights of people, who continue to resist the occupation authorities. This is the taking points the authors of the publication “The Fear Peninsula: Chronicle of Occupation and Violation of Human Rights in Crimea” expressed during its presentation.
“We called this book “fear peninsula” for a reason, because we speak here about the facts that in Crimea there is an atmosphere of total intimidation of those, who don’t agree with things that are happening there,” one of the authors, Chair of the Board of Human Rights Information Center Tetyana Pechonchyk said.
But, according to the Chair of the Board of the Center for Civil Liberties Oleksandra Matviychuk, the main problem is related, first and foremost, to a lack of mechanisms to protect human rights in the occupied territories. This is especially true for those people, who don’t recognize the occupation or are engaged in public activities.
“Now there are no legal mechanisms to help people protect their rights and freedoms. It is the first conclusion. The second conclusion. If we compare the situation concerning human rights and a system of organized political persecution in the peninsula and in Russia, then we have to note that occupation authorities use all tried-and-tested methods to steamroller any civic society activities in the peninsula,” Matviychuk says.
This publication is aimed at presenting the facts of human rights violations by the occupation authorities to the world, drawing attention of international organizations to the situation in Crimea and trying to defend the rights of Crimeans together with them.
