Three years beat

In Crimea, the situation with human rights is rapidly deteriorating. This is stated in the report of the international human rights organization Amnesty International, dedicated to the third anniversary of the Russian annexation of the peninsula.

"The situation is aggravated by the lack of an effective international observation mechanism that would have access to the peninsula. Thus, nothing holds the Russian authorities and the actual leadership of Crimea from the inexorable suppression of the slightest signs of dissent," the document emphasizes. In the Crimea annexed by Russia, there is a “sharp deterioration in the situation with human rights”,

The persecution of activists of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people in the Crimea reached the "new level" over the past year, human rights activists emphasize. The report lists the cases of criminal and administrative prosecution of Crimean Tatar activists, including in the “February 26 case” and on the affairs of the participants of the Khizb Ut-Tahrir religious organization. Ordinary ethnic Crimean Tatars are also subjected to persecution, in the houses of which the security forces "arbitrarily" conduct searches, note in AI.

"In Russia, administrative arrests of users of social networks have become more frequent, which posted the information of an" extremist "nature, even if their publications preceded the Russian annexation of Crimea," the report says.

Human rights activists also note that the lawyers Emil Kurbedinov and Nikolai Polozov, which defenders Crimean political prisoners, "faced serious oppression from the actual leadership of the peninsula and the Russian authorities."

The primary task of the international community should be the organization of effective observation of the regulations in the field of human rights in Crimea, according to Amnesty International. Human rights activists urge to use all the possibilities so that during negotiations with Russia, raising the issue of the access of human rights activists in the Crimea and the observance of human rights on the peninsula.

On Thursday, acting The official representative of the State Department, Mark Toner, said that the US sanctions introduced in connection with the annexation of Crimea will remain until Russia returned control over the peninsula. “The United States does not recognize the“ referendum ”for Russia on March 16, 2014, nor its attempts by the annexation of Crimea and the ongoing violation of international law,” the representative of the State Department emphasized. “In Russia, they organized an illegitimate referendum in which the inhabitants of Crimea were forced to vote, and foreign troops armed to teeth occupied their lands.”

"Over the past three years, Russian occupation" authorities "in Crimea have been involved in the crime campaign to suppress dissent. Observers on human rights have recorded violent disappearance, extrajudicial executions, torture and punitive psychiatric hospitalizations, the toner’s statement on the occasion of the three -year anniversary of the Annexia Peninsula. - Crimean Tatars, ethnic Ukrainians, pro -Ukrainian activists and independent journalists are subjected to judicial persecution for political reasons and repression. "