On Tuesday, August 27, since early morning, in the village Zuya of Belogorsk district of Crimea, Russian security officials have been searching the house of a local businessman of Crimean Tatar origin. In addition, security officials raided his parents’ house. The lawyer Mammet Mambetov reports about this on his Facebook page.
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“It is not calm in Zuya village today. Since early morning, a search has been carried out in the household of a local Crimean Tatar businessman. In addition, masked law enforcers also popped into his parents' house,” the lawyer wrote.
After the occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, searches in the Crimean Tatar households and pro-Ukrainian activists became regular practice on the peninsula. According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, for the first half of 2019, 73 searches were registered in the occupied Crimea, 55 of which were carried out in relation to the Crimean Tatars. In the II quarter of the current year, the number of searches decreased from 45 to 28 as compared to the first quarter. However, compared with the first half of 2018, the number increased from 66 to 73.