Crimean Tatar Repression Dataset

Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea marked the onset of a systematic repression campaign against the Crimean Tatar population. We introduce CriTaRep v1.2, the first comprehensive, geo-coded event dataset documenting state repression against Crimean Tatars (2000-2024). Drawing on locally sourced materials in Crimean Tatar, Ukrainian, and Russian languages, CriTaRep records n = 709 repression events affecting more than 2,200 individual victims. We inductively identify 22 repression types across three categories: deprivation of liberty, legal and administrative repression, and physical repression. Find more information here: https://www.ecmi.de/research-clusters/special-research-themes/repression-against-crimean-tatars. New in this version: v1.2 includes all repression events from 2000 to 2024.