Some participants of the Crimean Tatar protest action in front of the Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine have resumed their hunger strike yesterday, on June 4.

As QHA is informed by Mr. Nariman Potel, deputy head of the NGO Avdet, a quantity of hunger strikers is 8 people now but their number can be increased. As a cause to resume extreme methods of protests is fact that on June 3 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine introduced to its agenda a bill ‘Of procedure of organization and holding peaceful events’ elaborated by the Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine.

According to Nariman Potel, this bill extends considerably authorities of executive bodies and local self-governments that create conditions for abuses and violations of the constitutional right of citizens to freedom of assembly. Furthermore, some a bill’s regulations impose to organizers of mass events duties and functions of the law machinery and local power bodies.

Also the Crimean Tatar protest action’s participants were suggested again to “stop temporarily their action”. Instead of that, long-expected solution of land issue is promised to picketers but, as Potel noted, taking into account the latest developments “such demand of the Cabinet of Ministries looks not just strange but fishier one”.

“The Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine is trying to restrict rights of Ukrainian citizens that rendered them by the Constitution of Ukraine instead of fulfilment of its duties for public affairs” – Nariman Potel stressed.

It will be recalled that the Crimean Tatar action for solution of land issues in Crimea has gone on already 23 days. 13 days of them protesters hungered; they stopped their hunger strike because of the government’s skulduggery on May 26.

By QHA

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