Coordinator of the Crimean Tatar Resistance Movement deported to Uzbekistan

On November 7, a court in Simferopol decided to deport Nedim Khalilov, coordinator of the Crimean Tatar Resistance Movement, to Uzbekistan from the territory of Crimea. on his Facebook page This was announced by the head of the CEC of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatars, Zair Smedlyaev.

Smedlyaev told the publication “Crimea. Realii” that after the court session, Khalilov was given the opportunity to drive home, take warm clothes, money and documents, after which he was put in a car and taken out of Crimea.

on his Facebook page Later, Crimean Tatar activist Zevid Gaziev wrote that Khalilov was being transferred to a filtration point in the village of Vardan, Lazarevsky district, Krasnodar Territory.

From the comments on Smedlyaev's post, we can conclude that Khalilov arrived in Crimea in 1986, but did not receive first Ukrainian and then Russian citizenship, and therefore had the status of a stateless person.

The publication "15 minutes" notes that in February 2016, Nedim Khalilov filed a lawsuit with the Central District Court of Simferopol demanding that the actions of Vladimir Putin and the Crimean authorities be recognized as unlawful and illegal, and that the Crimean Tatars be given a special status as an indigenous people of the region.

As specified in the note “Crimea. Realii”, Khalilov also demanded that the Crimean Tatar language be given the status of a state language and that the court session be conducted in the Crimean Tatar language. In his statement, he relied on the norms of both international law and Russian law.