The relevant report was published by the UN General Assembly.

The document contains:

• cases of torture or ill-treatment, which were probably used by officers of the occupying FSS of Russia in the Crimea. No culprits were prosecuted.
• transfer of detainees from the occupied Crimea for conviction and serving a sentence of imprisonment in the Russian Federation (28 cases). Most of them were held in houses, meeting places or business premises belonging to the Crimean Tatars or "Jehovah's Witnesses";
• arbitrary transfer of detainees to penal isolators, including long solitary confinement;
• sanctions against religious organizations and individuals, including convictions of Jehovah's Witnesses, based on Russia's anti-extremist laws;
• interference in the holding of public meetings, including the imposition of fines and other sanctions on participants in the meeting, on the basis of a rule of law that requires prior permission from the Russian authorities to hold any scheduled meeting.
• trials in absentia that do not meet international human rights standards for those considered "opponents of Russian rule in Crimea".

The report notes that the number of arbitrary detentions of religious minorities on the peninsula increased almost fivefold in July 2020 - June 2021, compared to the previous period in July 2019 - June 2020.

There has also been no significant progress in the investigation of 43 cases of enforced disappearances (39 men and 4 women).

"11 people are still missing, 1 person was reportedly subjected to a total sentence after the initial disappearance, 1 person remains in an official place of detention, and 30 victims have been released but have not received any compensation", - was informed in the statement.

The document emphasizes that "employees" of the occupation FSS of the Russian Federation in Crimea, "Crimean self-defence forces" and "police" are among the alleged perpetrators who participated in abductions, detention, imprisonment in unofficial places of imprisonment, concealment of missing persons, torture and ill-treatment.

"No arrests have been made, although 28 disappearances occurred in 2014. Relatives of the victims complained to OHCHR about the formal nature of investigations, lack of transparency and denial of access to investigative files. Those victims who were released or transferred to official places of detention, they did not receive any compensation and complained of impunity for the violations they suffered. They often faced the inevitable risk of persecution, and most of them left Crimea soon after their release", - was informed in the statement by the UN.

What is known

• On March 11, the UN Monitoring Mission for Human Rights in Ukraine presented the 31st report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Ukraine. The report covers the period from August 2020 to January 2021 and in the Crimean dimension, it focuses on freedom of religion and belief, the rights of detainees, forced displacement and deportation.
• As the head of the UN Monitoring Mission acknowledged during the presentation of the report, Russia, as an occupying power, has not fully complied with any of the recommendations for improving the human rights situation in Crimea made in previous reports of the UN Monitoring Mission for Human Rights.