13/12/2016
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...
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06/12/2016
34 Ukrainian Muslim organisations have signed a Charter of Muslims of Ukraine aimed at joining in a single consolidating force for Ukrainian unity. The move and the affirmation of support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity are especially vital given the challenges brought by Russia’s occupation...
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26/05/2016
Ukraine’s Crimean Tatar Muslims have persevered through centuries of persecution, including an alleged Soviet-sponsored genocide in 1944. With Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimea, the Tatars are now facing renewed persecution in the form of government crackdowns and forced exile. Special...
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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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19/01/2016
The history of the struggle for independence of Ukraine has a lot of good and bad pages. In 1918, the first time in two hundred years, Ukrainians could create their own state - Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR). But, from the first days of its existence, thousands of patriots had to defend the...
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12/01/2016
History of Islam in Ukraine is closely interrelated with Ukrainian independence. Before the late 1980s no single community officially existed in this part of the USSR. However, in 2014 around 700 Islamic communities were registered, including those on the Crimean peninsula. Since 1991, Muslims have...
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10/11/2015
On Ukraine Today’s Viewpoint, Volodymyr Solohub is joined by Imam Nuridin, Islamic Culture Centre in Kyiv, to discuss the violation of religious and human rights of the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula which was annexed by Russia last year.
"Some activists among Crimean Tatars, among...
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30/09/2015
Turkey is going to fully finance the construction of Crimea’s largest mosque, Crimea's Grand Mufti said on Sunday.
Crimea Autonomous Republic’s Grand Mufti Emir Ali Ablayev said that the Russian administration approved the project, which they had been trying to implement for 10 years, from before...
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25/09/2015
Muslims in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine, prayed for de-occupation of Crimea and salvation for Ukrainian pilgrims performing Hajj in Mecca. At the same time, the pilgrims to the Hole Land also prayed for peace in Ukraine and happy returning of internally displaced persons to Crimea after the occupation...
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03/08/2015
Mr.Pavlo Klimkin, Ukrainian Minister Of Interior, revealed details of a Crimean Tatar Reshat Ametov murder when speaking to delegates and guests of II Crimean Tatar World Congress.
— And how many of them, Crimean Tatars, were killed, tortured and gone missing since the occupation began? It was on...
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