As it became known to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, a resident of Henichesk, Crimean Tatar Khalil Kurtametov, who was kidnapped by Russian occupants in January, returned home.
We remind you that on January 8, 2023, early in the morning, the occupants abducted two residents of Henichesk Khalil Kurtametov and his brother Ridvan. Nothing is known about the fate of Ridvan yet.
Earlier, in October 2022, the Kyiv District Court of the occupied Crimea arrested Khalil Kurtametov’s son Appaz Kurtametov. He is suspected of financing a terrorist organization under Art. 208 h. 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to investigators, he lent 500 hryvnias to his friend, who, as Appaz found out after making the money transfer, serves in the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion.
We emphasize that abduction, illegal detention and humiliating and cruel treatment of the population of the occupied territories are a violation of Articles 3 and 34 of the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Recall that during the period of a full-scale war in Ukraine, the CTRC recorded at least 299 cases of detention, 84 against representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.