European Court

The European Union regards the ban on the activities of the Medzhlis of Crimean Tatars and the persecution of its leaders as “serious and unacceptable violations” of human rights. This was stated by the official representative of the EU foreign policy.

“Today, the so -called“ Supreme Court ”of Simferopol sentenced the deputy chairman of Medzhlis Akhtem Chiygoz to eight years in prison for“ organizing mass riots ”in February 2014. The European Union consistently watched the work of Chiygoz and insisted on its release. We repeat this appeal today,” we hope for an inconspicuous withdrawal of accusations from another Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis Ilmi Umarov and again confirm our long -standing position that all illegally detained on the Crimean peninsula and in the Russian Federation should be immediately released. "

To the immediate release of Chiygoz, the international human rights organization Amnesty International, as well as the foreign policy departments of Great Britain and Canada , called on .

The European Union does not consider the elections of the Governor of Sevastopol, as well as other elections in the Crimea illegally annexed by Russia, which has been legalized on September 10. This is stated in a statement by the European Foreign Policy Service.

"The European Union did not recognize the illegal annexation of the Crimea and Sevastopol by the Russian Federation, and therefore does not recognize the elections on the Crimean peninsula. Any elected on the Crimean peninsula, claiming to" represent "Crimea and Sevastopol, will not be recognized as a representative of the territories that are Ukrainian union remains unshakable in their support of territorial integrity and territorial integrity and The sovereignty of Ukraine, ”the statement said.

On September 10, the first elections of the Russian governor in the annexed Sevastopol were held. With 71 percent of the vote, Dmitry Ovsyannikov won . On July 28, 2016, President Vladimir Putin appointed his acting head of the city . The post that has been this post since the annexation, Sergei Avayolo, became the plenipotentiary of the president in the Siberian Federal District.

On Monday, the Supreme Court of the annexed Crimea sentenced Chiygoz to eight years in general regime in the “February 26 case”. The board of Viktor Zinkov, Alexei Kozyrev and Igor Kryuchkova found the deputy chairman of the Mejlis guilty under Part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code (organization of riots). It was such a term by Politzeku who asked the prosecutor Anastasia Supryag to appoint a minimum term for this article in the court debate.

After the annexation of Crimea, Chiygoz refused to receive a Russian passport and remains a citizen of Ukraine, so he will serve his sentence as a foreigner. About a hundred Crimean Tatar activists came to the Politzkek to support.

On August 9, Chiygozperformed with the last word . “I am destined to accept this sentence as a sentence for the entire Crimean Tatar people - on behalf of the Russian Federation, who occupied my homeland,” said Politzek.

The factory of the case against Umarov became known on May 12, 2016. Part 2 of Article 280.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (public calls for separatism through the media), the policy faces up to five years in the colony. He is under the subscription about the loss. The court in his case continues. Umarov is charged with an interview given on March 19, 2016 on the live air of the Crimean Tatar television channel ATR, which, after expulsion from Crimea, works in Kiev. According to the FSB, the deputy chairman of the Mejlis "publicly called for the need to violate the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation."