muslims of Crimea

Crimea’s Security and Muslim Tatars’ Rights

In the Crimea, the only Crimean Tatar TV channel has stopped broadcasting based on Russian authorities’ refusal to renew its license. The station, ATR, which broadcast in the Tatar language to what officials say was an audience of 4 million people in Crimea and beyond, went off the air on April 1,...

"Religious communities in Crimea: the rights and persecution on political grounds" 16/04/2015 In the briefing "Religious communities in Crimea: the rights and persecution on political grounds", held on 15 April in Ukrainian crisis center media center speakers told reporters about the true state of religious life in the occupied Crimea, and pressure of the occupying power on religious...	Muslim Tatars suffer discrimination in Crimean homeland since annexation 11/12/2014 SARY-SU, CRIMEA – Since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, armed men have shown up frequently to search the cinder-block houses, mosque and school in Sary-Su, a settlement of Crimean Tatars, a Muslim ethnic minority that has long suffered from discrimination in the peninsula, which is its historic...
Neither War Nor Occupation Prevents Unindifferent People From Helping Others 09/10/2014 This year brought a lot of trials to the regions where most Ukrainian Muslims live. Many of them were forced to leave their homes and search for refuge in the other regions of the country; many people remained in their settlements in constant fear because of the military action going on (in Donbass...	Crimean Tatars — Persecuted and Harassed 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....
“Crimean Authorities” Untenant Mejlis 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...	Russian Police Targets Crimean Muslims 26/08/2014 Crimea’s veiled Muslim women have been complaining over being targeted by police for security checks ahead of a visit by Russian president Vladimir Putin to the black sea peninsula later this week. “This shows that Russian police do not trust headscarfed women and see them as a separate group in...
Russia’s Islamic Leaders Fight over Influence In Crimea 08/07/2014 From the very beginning of Crimean crisis a batch of Russia’s Muslim leaders started arriving at the peninsula. They feigned to “calm down” the Crimean Tatars, solve their problems and induce them to support Russian position. The main purpose of those Muftis, as the time has shown, is gaining the...	Media War Against Muslim Organisations Launched in Crimea 24/06/2014 After 23 years of Ukrainian Muslim communities’ peaceful development (including those on Crimean peninsula), some Russian “experts” found a seminary of extremism there - all of a sudden. Who stands to gain from destabilization of interfaith relation on the peninsula? What does Mr. Silantyev strive...
A new mosque has opened in Crimea which was the first this year 12/06/2014 The residents of the village Tutove, located in Crimea, Dzhankoiskiy region, at last have received their own mosque. Renovation and reconstruction works of the old building lasted approximately one year. Now this building has finally turned into mosque. The residents of the village Tutove,...	Crimea's Muslim Tatars flee for Ukraine 26/03/2014 As world leaders consider further sanctions on Russia over its annexation of Crimea, some Crimean Tatars say they're so frightened by Russia's takeover, they're fleeing to Ukraine. Authorities in the western city of Lviv say more than a thousand Tartars have arrived there. Russian forces now...

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