Escender Nebiev, the operator of the ATR television channel, was detained in Simferopol

In Simferopol , he was detained for participating with clashes in 2014 by Eskender Nebiev -the operator of the Crimean Tatar television channel of ATR, closed after the annexation of Crimea by Russia.

Nabieva was detained after a search in his house, Liliya Budzhurova, Deputy Director of the ATR television channel, said on Facebook.

"The escorter is charged with participation in the rally on February 26," Lilya Budzhurova wrote on Facebook.

Another journalist, Osman Pashayev, reports that Nebiev was detained by the Russian Investigative Committee. “The case is conducted by Bulat Ravilievich Azizov. Apparently there is a special cynicism that the affairs against the Crimean Tatars were fed by Kazan. Investigator in the case is Pavel Nickel. Also well done. Destruction after sunset, as early in the morning - this is the same thing,” he wrote on Facebook.

The Russian authorities pursued a number of Crimean Tatars for participating in clashes with pro -Russian activists near the Crimean parliament on February 26, 2014.

On that day, armed people in the form without insignia captured the parliament building the next day, and then Russia annexed Crimea after the referendum on March 16, the legality of which is disputed by Ukraine and the West.

Representatives of the Crimean Tatar community believe that the Crimean Tatars were faced with discrimination, the pressure for their opposition anxia by Russia of Crimea.

The ATR channel and other Crimean Tatar media were closed from April 1 after they were refused registration. The United States described these actions "the last in a series of actions to undermine freedom of expression in Crimea."