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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...

Russia sentences Seiran Saliyev to 16 years on same political charges as his great-grandfather in Soviet times 22/09/2020 A Russian court on 16 September 2020 sentenced Crimean Tatar civic journalist Seiran Saliyev to 16 years’ imprisonment on an identical charge to that used by the Soviet regime against his great-grandfather. The latter’s refusal to go into a collective farm, after the Soviets had taken away...	Ukrainian Parliament Human Rights Committee commenced its activity by representing meeting in the Kherson region of Ukraine 13/02/2020 At the meeting carried at the Governor Building of Kherson, the committee’s work plan for the region has discussed. Besides, members of the Ukrainian Parliament Human Rights Committee discussed the problems faced by Crimean residents and internal refugees who had to move to the main part of Ukraine...
MP Yurchyshyn on Police Raid Near the Mosque: “Law Enforcement Act Not as a Service Providing People with Higher Quality Life, but as Masters of the Universe” 06/02/2020 Yesterday, on 5 February, MP Yaroslav Yurchyshyn (“Holos” Party) spoke from the Parliament’s rostrum on a raid carried out by the enforcement near Kyiv ICC mosque on 31 January as of act of disrespect and dishonour, while their job, on the contrary, was to defend people's honour. “I want to talk...	Ukrainian authorities copy Russia and carry out raid outside Kyiv Mosque 31/01/2020 The Ukrainian authorities have once again copied the worst behaviour of the Russian occupation regime in Crimea, and have most cynically chosen to do so on Friday, a special day of prayer for Muslims. Said Ismagilov, Mufti of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Ukraine, ...
Nalan Dal: “When I sincerely wanted to do something for humanity, Allah blessed me in this field" 14/04/2018 Nalan Dal, International Fundraising coordinator of IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, was among more than two hundred participants of the International Women’s Forum, held on April 7, and initiated by the Muslim Women’s League of Ukraine and the Social Organisation "Maryam". Ms. Dal took...	“Syrian Women are Being Tortured and Raped in Prisons. We Just Had to Do Something!” — Nalan Dal 11/04/2018 A ‘Convoy of Conscience’ launched in Istanbul on 6 March, traveling to Hatay on the Turkish-Syrian border on 8 March. Participants from all over the world, including politicians, writers, public figures and ordinary housewives, demanded the release of women held in Syrian prisons. As...
Ukraine carries out Russian-style raid of Islamic Cultural Centre 07/03/2018 Said Ismagilov, Mufti of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Ukraine, has accused Ukraine’s enforcement bodies of multiple infringements during an early-morning search of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Kyiv. Ukraine is using methods, he says, which are disturbingly similar to those applied in...	Ukraine to submit another resolution on Crimea to UN 15/01/2018 Ukraine will submit new resolutions on the human rights situation in the occupied Crimea for consideration by the UN General Assembly, according to the Head of the Ukrainian delegation to the UN Vladimir Yelchenko. The diplomat noted that resolutions of this kind have a peculiar evolution, as...
“THERE’S 30 YEARS” – RELEASED IGOR KOZLOVSKYY TOLD ABOUT THE CAPTIVITY OF THE MILITANTS 28/12/2017 Released Igor Kozlovskyy at the airport “Borispol” told reporters the captivity of the militants. The unrecognized DNR atmosphere of Stalinist repression of the 1930s. Most civilians fear for their lives, said released from captivity theologian Igor Kozlovskyy. At the airport “Borispol” he...	More than 70 Crimean Tatar activists put on trial simultaneously in brazen crackdown 21/12/2017 Reacting to the simultaneous trials today of more than 70 Crimean Tatar activists charged after they each staged peaceful, individual demonstrations across multiple locations in the Russia-occupied Crimean peninsula, Oksana Pokalchuk, Amnesty International Ukraine’s Executive Director, said: “The...

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