After the annexation of Crimea by Russia in the spring of 2014, the Russian special services organized the persecution of Crimean Tatars and pro -Ukrainian activists who opposed the seizure of the peninsula. Dozens of people were arrested, mainly Crimean Tatars from Bakhchisaray, Sevastopol, Yalta and Simferopol.
On charges of participating in the Islamic organization of the Hizb Ut-Tahrir, 19 people were arrested. The organization has never committed a single terrorist attack, denies the violent methods of the spread of Islam, but has been recognized as terrorist in Russia. In Ukraine, it was allowed and acted legally, the repressions began after the capture of the peninsula.
Several Crimean Tatars, led by a member of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people by Akhtem Chiygoz, were arrested on suspicion of organizing and participating in the riots. So the Russian authorities called the rally on February 26, 2014, when thousands of Crimean Tatars and pro -Ukrainian activists did not allow the Crimean branches from Ukraine. The day after the rally, the Supreme Council of Crimea was captured by Russian special forces.
In addition to arrests and judicial persecution in Crimea, people continue to massively disappear. Most often, witnesses and surveillance cameras record that people are abducted by people in the form of a police. Some of their stolen were found killed, nothing is known about the fate of the rest.
Due to the arrests of Crimean Tatars and activists, more than 90 children have already been left without fathers. The self -government body of the Crimean Tatar people Majlis was recognized in Russia as an extremist organization for public condemnation of the annexation of Crimea. Show more To curtail