In Crimea, the FSB conducted searches of families who are friends with the accused in the “February 26 Case”

In Crimea today, Russian special services searched the homes of Crimean Tatars who are friends with Crimean Tatar Ali Asanov, one of the accused in the case of clashes in Simferopol on February 26, 2014. This was reported on Facebook by the coordinator of the committee for the protection of the rights of the Crimean Tatar people Eskender Bariev.

“The FSB continues to intimidate the Crimean Tatars!!! Today, at about 9:00 am, the FSB conducted a search in three houses in the village. Harvest of the Soviet region. Crimean Tatar families live in two of them. The FSB officers presented a court order authorizing the search. According to the Decree, the search warrant was given in connection with the allegedly missing moped and the theft of a telephone. They brought their witnesses to the search. Refused to provide neutral witnesses. Rude. They turned everything in the houses, ”Bariev wrote.

He also explained that two Crimean Tatar families, whose homes were searched, maintain relations with Ali Asanov, and the house of the third family is located next to the Asanovs' house.

Ali Asanov, a participant in the February 26 Case, was detained on April 15 near his house in the village of Urozhaynoye, Soviet District, and then arrested. Asanov's preventive measure in the form of detention expires on October 15, 2015.