MP from the European Solidarity faction Volodymyr Ariev sent a letter to the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunya Mijatovic, in which he spoke about the current situation with human rights in the occupied Crimea. As part of the campaign MP, Help the Prisoners of the Kremlin!, Ar’iev paid special attention to the 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 – were arrested for far-fetched reasons.
“At least three family members are still illegally detained in prisons, while others suffer arbitrary fines just for seeking justice for their relatives. In total, there have been hundreds of similar cases of ethnic political persecution in Crimea, according to reports from the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, a public organization created to ensure the collective rights of the Crimean Tatars as the indigenous population and the individual rights of all residents of Crimea”,- the letter said.
Ariev called on Mijatovic to facilitate the official recognition of Enver Omerov, Riza Omerov and Rustem Ismailov as political prisoner.
We remind 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 political prisoners of Crimea!", in 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 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.