For 9 months of 2020, 68 arrests were recorded in the occupied Crimea, 28 of which were against Crimean Tatars. Dynamics of the number of arrests compared to 2018 and 2019 for the same period shows a decline: in 2019, for 9 months, 126 cases of detention were recorded, in 2018 – 91. This is stated in the analysis of human rights violations in Crimea for 9 months of 2020 by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.
As a rule, arrests are carried out after searches, systemic arrests are also recorded at the administrative border with the occupied Crimea. The main formal reasons for the arrests were allegedly: involvement in the organizations banned in the Russian Federation, namely Hizb ut-Tahrir and Jehovah's Witnesses, participation in the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion, failure to report a crime, public calls for terrorist / extremist activities, preparation for participation in the activities of a terrorist organization, espionage in favor of Ukraine, illegal acquisition, storage, transportation of explosives, ammunition, etc.
We remind that for 9 months of 2020, at least 40 searches were recorded in the occupied Crimea, 25 of which were in the houses of the Crimean Tatars. This indicator is 2 times less than last year for the same period. Such dynamics, according to the experts of the CTRC, is associated with the coronavirus pandemic.