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The prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, currently in Kyiv, is investigating criminal cases on the facts of restrictions on the annexed peninsula of 88 citizens in connection with their political beliefs, ethnic and religious origin. This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

The prosecutor of the Arc Gunduz Mammadov at a meeting with Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko and the authorized person of the President of Ukraine for the Crimean Tatar people Mustafoi Dzhemilev said that a register of violations of the rights of the inhabitants of Crimea was created. "For each case, the ARC prosecutor’s office registered criminal proceedings and an investigation is being conducted," Mammadov said. The prosecutor of the ARC said that in early 2017 a number of cases will be sent to the court in relation to Russian officials accused of the persecution of Ukrainian citizens.

Dzhemilev noted that the invaders are trying to "change the demographic situation" on the peninsula with respect to the Crimean Tatars. "According to Article 49 of the Geneva Convention on the Protection of the Civil Population during the war, these actions are qualified as a war crime," Jamielev emphasized. Lutsenko noted that he reported about the International Criminal Court in The Hague. According to the Prosecutor General, the information was perceived in the Musa "with a very high interest."

Meanwhile, on December 10, activists of the Crimean Tatar National Movement adopted an appeal dedicated to the Day of Protection of Human Rights. The document was published on his page by the first deputy chairman of the Crimean Tatar National Executive Committee Nariman Jelly

“Throughout 2016, systematic violations of human rights have continued and continuing the signs of political, national, religious discrimination,” the statement says. “This situation allows us, activists of the Crimean Tatar National Movement, to state that the norms of the general declaration of human rights, adopted this day in 1948, are cynically violated by the constant member of the Security Council of the UN. UN Assembly. "

Activists called on international organizations, parliaments and government of the UN member countries and the OSCE "to use the entire arsenal of diplomatic, economic and other peaceful means" for pressure on Russia to encourage her authorities to terminate human rights violations in Crimea.

On September 29, 2015,the Hague Tribunal introduced the situation in Ukraine to the case , open one and a half years earlier on the statement of Kiev about crimes during the Euromaidan, the new statement of the Ukrainian authorities - on the fact of crimes committed on February 20, 2014, when, judging by the memorable medal issued in Russia, the Kremlin began to capture the Crimea.

On November 16, the UN General Assembly Committee on Social and Humanitarian Affairs (Third Committee)adopted a resolution on human rights in Crimea . For the document proposed by Ukraine, representatives of 73 countries voted at 76 abstained and 23 votes against. In the preamble of the resolution, "temporary occupation by the Russian Federation of part of the territory of Ukraine - the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol" is confirmed by the "non -recognition of its annexation."

The resolution proposes to condemn "infringement of human rights, discriminatory measures and practice against residents of the temporarily occupied Crimea, including Crimean Tatars, as well as Ukrainians and persons belonging to other ethnic and religious groups, from the Russian occupation authorities."