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Mass armed searches for ‘prohibited books’ and arrests in Russian-occupied Crimea

Mass armed searches for ‘prohibited books’ and arrests in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s FSB have arrested six Ukrainian Muslims, five of them Crimean Tatars, after armed searches of seven homes in the early morning of 17 February 2021. The FSB and heavily armed Rosgvardia officers were clearly interested only in books, and in at least one case, claimed to find the so-called...

Ukrainian judge blocks pension for severely disabled son of religious scholar held hostage in Donbas 12/12/2017 Almost two years after renowned academic Ihor Kozlovskyy was seized by militants from the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’, a judge in Kyiv has demanded that he be summoned to court before agreeing to reinstate his paralyzed son Slava’s pension. The fact that his family is seeking to...	Moscow Patriarchate refuses to help Ukrainian academic & advocate of religious dialogue jailed by Donbas militants 13/09/2017 World-renowned Ukrainian academic and advocate for inter-faith dialogue, Ihor Kozlovskyy has been imprisoned in the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ since January 2016 because he remained in Donetsk to care for his disabled son. This is hardly a proper reason, but then neither are the absurd...
Rohingya Support Campaign Outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 05/09/2017 Few people can feel the pain of the victims of genocide as much as the Ukrainians, because they were themselves subject Soviet holodomor (artificial famine) of 1932-33, as well as ethnicity-based total deportations of 1944 and “Red Terror‘ against, among others, people trying to stick to their...	New attack on Crimean Tatar rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov 30/03/2017 Crimean Tatar rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov has been summoned for questioning and informed he is facing a preliminary criminal investigation on absurd charges. This is the latest overt offensive against Kurbedinov and other lawyers defending Russia’s ever-increasing number of political prisoners...
The DPR refuses to hand over scholar Ihor Kozlovsky to Ukraine 17/03/2017 Donetsk scientist-theologian Ihor Kozlovsky has been held captive for two years by the separatist organization, the Donetsk People’s Republic. This was stated by one of Kozlovsky’s relatives, the PR-manager of the winner of Eurovision 2016,...	Prominent Ukrainian Scientist is Held Hostage in Donbas 17/03/2017 What You Need To Know: ✅ Ihor Kozlovskiy is Ukrainian scientist, historian, who was detained in Donetsk in January, 27th, 2016. He has been captured by ‘DNR’ representatives for almost 400 days already; ✅ He was accused of spying activity. According to his nephew Denys Kozlovskiy, his uncle was...
Crimean Tatars: Moscow Adds Those Opposing Annexation to List of ‘Terrorists & Extremists’ 17/01/2017 The Russian government has put Ilmi Umerov, leader of the democratically elected Crimean Tatar Mejlis, on a list of people it deems ‘Terrorists and Extremists’ – simply for holding the opinion that Russia should cease its illegal occupation of Crimea. Umerov has already spent three weeks being...	The disappeared 14/12/2016 On September 27th 2014, 18-year-old Islyam Dzhepparov poured coffee for his father Abdureshit at home in Belogorsk, Crimea, before leaving the house to visit his uncle’s family nearby. At 7pm a neighbour drove into Dzhepparov’s yard. He said he had just seen Islyam and another young man being...
Emir Usein Kuku forced to undergo psychiatric examination 13/12/2016 On 8 December 2016, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation forced human rights defender Emir Usein Kuku to undergo psychiatric examination. Later on the same day, without the human rights defender present, the Kievsky District Court of Simferopol, rendered a decision to extend his...	Ukrainian Muslims join in affirmation of unity and support for Ukraine 06/12/2016 34 Ukrainian Muslim organisations have signed a Charter of Muslims of Ukraine aimed at joining in a single consolidating force for Ukrainian unity. The move and the affirmation of support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity are especially vital given the challenges brought by Russia’s occupation...

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