Contents Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 PART 1. The Occupation of Crimea: Chronicle of Seizure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 PART 2. International Legal Aspect of the Occupation of ARC and the City of Sevastopol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Overview of the Situation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.1. International Legal Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2.2. Regulatory Legal Acts of Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 2.3. Regulatory Legal Acts of the Authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Self-Proclaimed Authorities of the Crimean Peninsula . . . . . 28 2.4. Regulatory Legal Acts of the Russian Federation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 2.5. International and national structures Regarding the Status of Human Rights in the Crimea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 PART 3. The Aftermaths of the Occupation: A Political Repressions System. . . . . . . . 37 3.1. Characteristics of Repressions in Crimea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3.2. The ‘Risk Groups’ in the Political Repressions System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 3.3. Prosecution of the Real or Alleged Supporters of the State Sovereignty of Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 3.4. Prosecution of Non-Violent Exercise of the Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion, Freedom of Expression and Information, Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association and Other Rights and Liberties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 3.5. Repressions Against the Crimean Tatar People as a Systemic Organized Opposition to the Occupation Regime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 3.6. Repressions Against any Forms of an Independent Civil Society . . . . . . . . . . 51 3.7. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3