Detention, Threats, and Violence Against Christian Minority Believers in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea (February - December 2014)

 Joy Ireland and Mark R. Elliott, compilers

Tables 

Notes: 

1. Felix Corley, “Crimea: Religious Freedom Survey, March 2014,” Forum 18 News Service, 27 March 2014.
2.  Felix Corley, “Crimea: Raids, Violence, Threats—But What Protection Do Victims Get?” Forum 18 News Source, 26 June 2014.
3. Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea 2014; Felix Corley, “Crimea: Enforced Departure of Turkish Imams; FSB Surveillance,” Forum 18 News Service, 3 September 2014. 
4. Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution
5.  Ibid. 
6.  Ibid. 
7. Ibid. 
8.  Ibid.
9.  Ibid. 
10.  Ibid. 
11. Ibid. 
12. Ibid.; “Slaviansk Separatists Release Protestant Bishop Aleksei Demidovich,” Portal-Credo.ru, 19 May 2014. 
13.  Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution.
14.  When God Becomes the Weapon: Persecution Based on Religious Beliefs in the Armed Conflict in Eastern Ukraine (Brussels: International Partnership for Human Rights, 2015). 
15.  Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution; Felix Corley, “Crimea: Raids, Violence, Threats.” 
16.  Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution. 
17. Ibid.; William Yoder, “Churches Too Are Donating Munition; The Situation in Ukraine at Year’s End,” Russian Evangelical Alliance Release, #14-17, 31 December 2014; “Mikhail Panochko Expresses Condolences to Families of Late Christians in Slaviansk,” Baznika. info, 16 July 2014; “Ukraine: Memorial Service Held for Four Murdered Christians,” Church in Chains, 31 July 2014. 
18.  Ibid. 
19.  Ibid.
20.  Ibid. 
21. Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution. 
22.  Ibid. 
23.  “Artillery Shell Kills Pastor of Local Church in Mariupol,” Invictory.com, 15 June 2014. 
24.  Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution. 
25.  Ibid.; “Terrorists Seize Church and Threaten to Shoot Pastor in Shakhtersk,” Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU), 24 June 2014; “Pastor from Donetsk Composes List of Churches Seized by Terrorists, Specifically for Fans of Putin,” RISU, 2 January 2015. 
26. Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution. 
27.  Ibid. 
28.  “Terrorists Charge Protestant Pastor with ‘Crime’ of Receiving Refugees,” RISU, 27 June 2014; “Pastor from Donetsk,” RISU, 2 January 2015. 
29.  Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution. 
30.  Ibid. 
31.  When God Becomes the Weapon. 
32.  Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution. 
33.  Ibid.; “Exarch of UGKTs Calls for Prayer for Release of Father Tikhon,” RISU, 6 July 2014; “UGKTs Priest Captured by Russian Orthodox Army,” Religiia v Ukraine, 9 July 2014. 
34.  Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution. 
35.  “Kiev Patriarchate Priest Kidnapped in Donetsk,” Press Center of Kiev Patriarchate, 8 July 2014; “Priest of UOC-KP Yuriy Ivanov Rescued from Captivity,” RISU, 31 July 2014. 
36.  When God Becomes a Weapon. 
37.  Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution. 
38.  Ibid. 
39.  “Ukraine:Rebel Forces Detain, Torture Civilians; Dire Concerns for Safety of Captives,” Human Rights Watch, 28 August 2014. 
40.  Ibid. 
41.  Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution.
42.  “Ukraine,” Human Rights Watch, 28 August 2014. 
43.  Ibid.; “Pastor: ‘Red Orthodoxy’ Commits Violent Acts in Donetsk,” Religiia v Ukraine, 29 September 2014. 
44. Felix Corley, “Crimea: Enforced Departure of Turkish Imams; FSBS Surveillance,” Forum 18 News Service, 3 September 2014. 
45.  Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution. 
46.  “Pastor Sergei Litovchenko Released from Captivity of Militants of ‘DPR’,” Institute of Religious Liberty, 16 October 2014; “Pastor from Donetsk,” RISU, 2 January 2015. 
47.  Willy Fautre, “Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches Squeezed in Crimea,” Human Rights Without Frontiers, 24 November 2014; Felix Corley, “Crimea: Religious Freedom,” Forum 18 News Service, 27 March 2014. 
48.  “Kidnapped Minister in Luhansk Province Now Free,” Invictory. com, 20 October 2014. 
49. Mission Eurasia, Religious Persecution. 
50.  “A Pastor Who Fought on the Side of Ukraine Got Killed in Pisky Near Donetsk,” Invictory.com, 25 November 2014. 
51.  Felix Corley, “Crimea: Convent Closed Following Nuns’ Enforced Departure,” Forum 18 News Service, 20 January 2015. 
52.  Gavin Drake, “Religious Leaders in Crimea Face Expulsion by Russia,” Church Times, 7 November 2014; http://www.churchtimes. co.uk/articles/2014/7-november/news/world/r. 
53.  “A Ukrainian Orthodox Priest (Kyiv Patriarchate) from Kherson Released from Captivity in Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR),” RISU, 4 April 2015. 
54.  When God Becomes the Weapon. 
55.  Ibid. 
56.  Ibid. 
57. Ibid. 
58.  Ibid.