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...
EU urged immediately to release the deputy head of the Mejlis Akhtem Chiygoz and all Ukrainians illegally detained in Crimea and Russia.
As UNIAN reports, it was reported and provided in the EU External Diplomatic Service representative’s statement on Monday in Brussels.
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It took nearly ten days for interfaith youth seminar “The Arc” at Sviato-Uspenska Univska Lavra (Lviv region) to come to the close.
Traditionally, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Lviv, Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies “Tkuma”, Ukrainian Catholic Universitiy, Social...
Since the beginning of the Holy Month of Ramadan, 120 grocery baskets purchased for donations from the German Charity Fund Muslimehelfen, were distributed by “Alraid” volunteers. Each basket contained provision that should be enough for a...
First Deputy Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine Emine Dzheppar at the high-level meeting within the framework of the UN General Assembly speaks about Ukraine's achievements in the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
She wrote this on her Facebook page.
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A joyful occasion took place at the mosque of Kyiv Islamic Cultural Centre today: Bekir Suleimanov married the famous singer Jamala (Susana Jamaladinova) in the traditional Islamic religious ceremony of nikah. It was Mufti Said Ismagilov who married the couple. Video of the ceremony (in Ukrainian...
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 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...
In a surprise move, Romania’s largest political party nominated a woman from the country’s Tatar minority for prime minister on Wednesday. If she wins approval from the president and Parliament, she will be both the first Muslim and the first woman to hold the post.
The Social Democratic Party...
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...
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...