Letters to Free Crimea: write warm words to political prisoners of Kremlin

Until May 19, 2024, the Letters to Free Crimea initiative will continue in Ukraine and abroad. The campaign encourages everyone to send letters of support to Crimean political prisoners illegally detained by the Russian Federation.

The purpose of the initiative Letters to Free Crimea is to remind the society about the Ukrainian prisoners of the Kremlin, and to remind the political prisoners that the society is interested in and worried about them. These letters are also a message to prison administrations that every citizen of Ukraine is important and that society is monitoring the conditions of their detention.

According to the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, as of April, 2024, Russia holds 218 Crimean political prisoners, 133 of them are Crimean Tatars.

The organisers encourage writing letters to Crimean political prisoners, because they are imprisoned for their pro-Ukrainian positions, for active resistance to the Russian occupation and their struggle for a free Crimea. Prisoners are often held in inhumane conditions, where they are denied even medical care, as a result of which they die.

Organisers of the initiative: Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, PEN Ukrainian, Human Rights Centre ZMINA, Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.