On 11 December 2025, officers from the Russian Interior Ministry’s Centre for Combating Extremism (“Centre E”) and riot police raided and searched two offices used by lawyers in the occupied Crimea. According to reports by the human rights initiative Crimean Solidarity and other credible, confidential sources, the search was arbitrary, intrusive and intimidating, and conducted with multiple procedural violations, resulting in direct and deliberate breach of the lawyer-client privilege.
