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The fate of more than 20 missing people in the occupied Crimea remains unknown

August 30, 2022

August 30 is the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance, 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. According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, during the period of the occupation, 21 people are considered missing, about whom there is no information, 15 of them are representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people.

According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, during the period of occupation, 21 people are considered missing, about which there is no information:

1. Abduramanov Rizvan

2. Aliev Arsen

3. Alyautdinov Marsel

4. Apselyamov Eskender

5. Aripov Shevket

6. Arislanov Mukhtar

7. Bondarets Ivan

8. Chernysh Vasiliy

9. Dzhepparov Islyam

10. Ganiev Ruslan

11. Ibragimov Ervin

12. Islyamov Dzhevdet

13. Kaplienko Maksim

14. Klapova Katerina

15. Kostenko Fedor

16. Shaimardanov Timur

17. Shevketov Marlen

18. Suyunov Arsen

19. Terekhov Arlen

20. Vaschuk Valery

21. Zinedinov Seyran

Unfortunately, the de facto Crimean authorities controlled by the Kremlin create only the appearance of investigating these cases, despite the fact that, according to the UN General Assembly Resolution A / RES / 71/205, Russia is named an occupying state and is responsible for observing human rights in this territory.

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 of pressure and intimidation of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people and pro-Ukrainian activists.

You can read more about the people killed in the occupied Crimea in our booklet.

We remind you that on July 28, 2016 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine the opening of the exposition Missing and Dying During the Occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation took place, which was organized by the CTRC.