25/01/2016
Officials in Moscow-annexed Crimea said on last Thursday that a revered community leader of Tatars, a Muslim minority with a long history of persecution by Russia, has been arrested in absentia and faces three unspecified charges for "premeditated crimes".
Mustafa Jemilev, a lawmaker in Ukraine's...
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26/03/2015
Like Stalin, Putin views Crimea's Tatars as a threat, and is sowing fear in the peninsula's population, to help facilitate their ethnic cleansing, Refat Chubarov told EurActiv.
On a visit to Brussels, the leader of the Crimean Tatar national movement in Ukraine, and worldwide, called the annexation...
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30/01/2015
Akhtem Chyyhoz, Deputy Head of the Mejlis or representative assembly of the Crimean Tatar People was arrested on Thursday evening on charges of ‘organizing and taking part in mass disturbances’. The move is one of truly unprecedented cynicism. Not only is there video footage demonstrating that...
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24/09/2014
Since Russia invaded and annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in March, the situation of the Crimean Tatars has significantly deteriorated. They are in an increasingly perilous position with Russia and the illegal Crimean authorities engaged in a campaign of repression, persecution and harassment....
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22/09/2014
Crimea's Russian-backed acting head, Sergei Aksyonov, says the self-governing body of the peninsula's Crimean Tatar community, the Mejlis (Assembly), does not exist.
Aksyonov's remarks come days after law enforcement authorities seized the Mejlis building in the regional capital,...
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19/09/2014
“If the employees of Mejlis and “Crimea” Fund don’t leave the building within 24 hours, they’ll be driven from there by force. The building of the Crimean Tatars’ representative organ will be sealed anyway,” - the law enforcement officers said to the Head of “Crimea” Fund Mr.Riza Shevkiev
It bears...
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18/09/2014
Yesterday Putin’s storm troops made a move on Crimean Tatars, a people whose claim on the peninsula predates the Russians’ by centuries.
Ever since the anschluss of the Crimea last March, the Tatars, who make up about 12 per cent of the population, have been on the receiving end of persecution.This...
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18/09/2014
Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Jemilev and the head of Crimean Tatar Mejlis Refat Chubarov will run for election into the Ukrainian parliament on October 26 representing the political bloc led by President Petro Poroshenko.
According to bloc leader Yuriy Lutsenko, the Crimean Tatar leaders have urged...
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21/08/2014
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has appointed Crimean Tatar leader, Ukrainian MP Mustafa Jemilev his representative on Crimean Tatar affairs.
Veteran Crimean Tatar leader and Ukrainian MP Mustafa Jemiliev has been appointed Presidential Commissioner on Crimean Tatar Affairs. The relevant...
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06/08/2014
Ukrainian Muslims celebrated Eid al-Fitr - the feast accomplishing the month of fasting during Ramadan. More than 2,000 believers came to the mosque at Kyiv Islamic Cultural Centre in order to perform the festive prayer together - not only local Muslims, but some diplomats from Muslim countries and...
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