In Crimea, the operatives of the Center "E" detained 35 Crimean Tatars in cafes

On Saturday night in the village of Pionerskoye, Simferopolsky district in a local cafe, police detained 35 Crimean Tatars, Crimea. Reali reports with reference to Emil Kurbedinova lawyer. The people in the cafe with the Slavic appearance were immediately released.

The detainees were delivered to the Center for Combating Extremism supposedly with the aim of "preventive development." There they rewrote personal data, removed fingerprints and saliva samples on DNA. Four hours later, the detainees were released.

Meanwhile, the prosecutor of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya denies the focused detention of the Crimean Tatars. According to her, last Friday employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FMS and FSKN held in nightclubs and institutions of Simferopol and Simferopol district a planned preventive event to identify persons who are intoxicated or live in the Republic of Crimea with violation of migration legislation.

"According to the results, about 50 people of various nationality were checked, not only the Crimean Tatars, but also Russians, Ukrainians, and Chechens, and others. No one was delayed, the maximum was delivered to the police department to verify the accounting data," Poklonskaya said.

After the annexation of the peninsula, the Russian authorities pursue Crimean Tatar activists . Against the chairman of the Mejlis Refat Chubarov and ex-chairman of this structure, the National leader of the Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemilev, criminal cases were instituted in Crimea. However, they remain out of reach of the Russian authorities, who themselves in 2014 actually expelled both politicians to continental Ukraine. Meanwhile, one of the four deputy chairpers of the Mejlis, Akhtem Chiygoz, has been enclosed in Simferopol SIZO-1 for more than a year. He is the main person involved in the fabricated "case of February 26"; Part 1 of Article 212 of the Russian Criminal Code (organization of mass riots) Chiygoz threatens from 8 to 15 years in a colony.

On February 15, Poklonskaya filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Crimea on the ban on the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people . "At present, appeals from the Crimean Tatar population continue to receive, including the leaders of the Crimean Tatar associations, with a request to recognize the unlawful and provocative activities of the Medzhlis of the Crimean Tatar people, as well as take measures in terms of the prohibition of the use of the Crimean Tatar Flag by criminals committing blockade and sabotage against the peoples of Crimea," the lead statement said. Demoices also had a call to ban the Mejlis to oppose the spiritual administration of the Muslims of Crimea and personally against the mufti Emirali Ablaev.

The official called Article 9 of the Russian Law on Countering Extremism (the responsibility of organizations for conducting extremist activities).