Fasting, praying and eating according to religious rules is impossible in some jails, ex-prisoners and groups say.

Many arrested Tatars await trials for months or even years ... “discrediting Russia’s military” often end up in distant Siberian prisons. “People are jailed for nothing.

The Tatars, who are of Turkic origin ... in both Russia and Ukraine and have representatives from Kaliningrad to Siberia, including in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. They aim to develop their ...

Rustem Virati, a 60-year-old Crimean Tatar who was imprisoned by the Russians for eight years, has died in a penal colony in the city of Dmitrovgrad, Russia’s Ulyanovsk Oblast. Source: Refat Chubarov, ...