On Tuesday, May 18, the day of commemoration of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people, the MP from the European Solidarity faction Volodymyr Ariev urged not to forget about the tragedy of the indigenous people. As part of the campaign “MP, help the Crimean political prisoners!”, Ariev drew special attention to the current situation of the Crimean Tatar people, namely to the practice of persecuting entire families, and cited the example of the Omerov family, in which all the men: Enver Omerov – father, Riza Omerov – son and Rustem Ismailov – son-in-law are arrested for far-fetched reasons.
“Every Ukrainian who wants to save his land from the aggressor must support the Crimean Tatars today. 77 years ago, Stalin ordered the resettlement of the indigenous people of Crimea to Central Asia. Today, Russian invaders, Stalin's followers, persecute and kill Crimean Tatars, throw them into prisons and ban to return to their homeland”,- the message said.
Ariev stressed that the Ismailov-Omerov family is a terrible example. On trumped-up charges, the invaders sentenced the entire family – husband, father and brother to long terms of imprisonment.
“On the day of remembrance of the victims of deportation, we must remember the tragedies – both past and present. If we fight together, we will definitely drive out the Moscow invaders”,- he added.
We remind you that the International Movement for the de-occupation of Crimea and Solidarity with the Crimean Tatar People #LIBERATECRIMEA within the framework of the international campaign Atalık (Godfather) launched the campaign "MP, help the prisoners of the Kremlin!", within which it called on Ukrainian MPs to take patronage over the Crimeans who were arrested or persecuted by the Russian occupants.
On February 24, during the round table The Crimean Platform: the Path to the De-occupation of Crimea organized by the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, De-occupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, MP from the Voice faction Solomiia Bobrovska publicly supported the campaign and took two political prisoners: the defendant in the so-called Yalta Hizb ut-Tahrir case Refat Alimov, as well as Halyna Dovhopola, who is accused of espionage.
On March 10, MP from the European Solidarity faction Volodymyr Ariev also publicly supported the campaign MP, help the prisoners of the Kremlin! and took patronage over three political prisoners: over the defendant in the so-called first Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case Rustem Ismailov, as well as over the defendants in the so-called Bilohirsk Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Enver Omerov and Riza Omerov.