On Wednesday, February 9, another search and detention of Crimean Tatars took place on the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula.
Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said that in the morning, the FSB officers of neighboring Russia, without explaining the reasons, detained four Ukrainian citizens who live in the Belogorsky, Bakhchisarai and Simferopol regions of the Crimean peninsula and the Balaklava region of Sevastopol.
– Another arbitrariness in relation to the Crimean Tatars in the temporarily occupied Crimea! The Russian-controlled Kievsky District Court of Simferopol chose a measure of restraint in the form of detention until April 7 for the Crimean Tatars Marlen Mustafaev and Ametkhan Abdulvapov, and the Leninsky District Court of Sevastopol took Ernest Sernast into custody until April 6, she noted.
The Ombudsman said that on the eve of the detention, searches were carried out in the homes of the Crimean Tatars, which she assesses as illegal.
“They were carried out by FSB officers without the permission of lawyers and the delivery of relevant procedural documents in the Crimean Tatar language, native to the detainees, which is a violation of Article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms,” Denisova explained.
The Ukrainian Ombudsman called on the international community to react and strongly condemn the illegal actions of the Russian Federation, as well as to increase pressure on the Kremlin in order to stop human rights violations in the temporarily occupied ARC and Sevastopol.
Photos of searches and detentions of Crimean Tatars were published by Crimean Solidarity activists.
