On August 30, the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance was celebrated, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 2010. After the occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, disappearances and abductions of people became a regular practice on the peninsula. According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, during the period of occupation, 18 people are considered missing, about whom there is no information, 13 of them are representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people.
According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, during the period of occupation, 17 people are considered missing, about which there is no information: Valeriy Vashchuk, Ivan Bondarec, Vasily Chernysh, Timur Shaimardanov, Seyran Zinedinov, Islyam Dzhepparov, Dzhevdet Islyamov, Eskender Apselyamov, Fedor Kostenko, Mukhtar Arislanov, Arlen Terekhov, Ruslan Ganiev, Marsel Alyautdinov, Arsen Aliev, Ervin Ibragimov, Rizvan Abduramanov, Maksym Kapliienko, Arsen Suyunov.
Employees and experts of the CTRC have repeatedly informed the international community at the international platforms of the UN, OSCE, PACE about these outrageous facts of human rights violations. We condemn the arrests, detentions and abductions of people, which are used in Crimea as a way to pressure and intimidate the indigenous Crimean Tatar people and pro-Ukrainian activists.
We remind that the Crimean Tatar Resource Center has classified and developed clickable diagrams “Victims of the occupation of Crimea”, which are permanently available on the organization's website in 4 languages and display the actual number of political prisoners, missing and dead people during the occupation of Crimea.