Detained Crimean Tatar activists were placed in temporary detention facilities

In Simferopol, the detained Crimean Tatar activists were taken to a temporary detention facility. This happened after investigative actions and inspection of their cars, according to Krym. Realities".

According to the publication, the measure of restraint for the activists will be chosen in the next two days.

FSB officers detained them on the morning of 23 November. Among them were the leader of the Yalta Majlis Asan Chapukh, the father of Bekir Degermendzhi, the person involved in the criminal case of the riots near the building of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea in February 2014, the chairman of the Mejlis of the village of Grushevka (Sudaksky district) Kazim Ametov and Kurtseit Abdullayeva.

The men were accused of extorting money on an especially large scale from a Turkish citizen. After that, a criminal case was initiated for “Extortion committed by a group of persons” (Part 2 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code). In addition, the homes of several local activists were searched.

after the incident died Vejiye Kashka, a veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement, . They wanted to detain her with other activists, but the woman became ill and was taken to the hospital.

Activist of the Crimean Tatar national movement Nariman Dzhelal claims that the Turkish citizen, because of whom the group, members of the Crimean Tatar national movement was detained, stole the money of the Vedzhiye Kashka family.