For the first quarter of 2021, 45 cases of arrests were recorded, 23 of which were against representatives of the indigenous people. Out of 45 cases: 19 – sentences, 10 – new arrests, 16 – extensions of detention for political prisoners in Crimea. This is stated in the analysis of human rights violations in Crimea over the first quarter of 2021 by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.
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During this period, the occupation courts sentenced:
• defendants in the so-called Bilohirsk Hizb ut-Tahrir case Enver Omerov to 18 years of imprisonment, Ayder Dzhepparov to 17 years of imprisonment, Riza Omerov to 13 years of imprisonment.
• pro-Ukrainian activist Oleg Prykhodko to 5 years of imprisonment in a strict regime colony with the first year in prison.
• political prisoner Medzhyt Ablyamitov, suspected of allegedly participating in the the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion to 6 years in a strict regime colony with a 1 year of probation.
• Halyna Dovhopola to 12 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony, with a probation term of 1 year.
• Viktor Stashevskiy, suspected of participating in the Jehovah's Witnesses religious organization banned in Russia, to six and a half years of imprisonment.
In the period from 22 to 31 January, the invaders arrested 12 people for participating in a rally in support of Navalny: Viacheslav Neievin, Oleksandr Krytsky, Oleksandr Baklytsky, Illia Zayik, Artem Lukashov, Serhii Lukashov, Anastasiia Lukashenko, Maksym Bychkov, Andrii Kravtsov, Maksym Rozum, Danylo Kovalenko, Tetiana Stepina.
The following people were illegally taken into custody by the decisions of the occupation courts:
• activist Nina (Latifa) Malakhova, who was placed under house arrest.
• Crimean Tatars detained after searches – Ernest Ibrahimov, Tymur Yalkabov, Azamat Eiupov, Oleh Fedorov, Lenur Seidametov and Yashar Shykhametov.
• Vladislav Yosypenko, who was sentenced to arrest until May 11.
• 42-year-old Taras Kuzio, who is suspected of financing an extremist organization – Jehovah's Witnesses. He was put under house arrest.
• Crimean opposition activist Illia Bolshedvorov. He was arrested for 10 days due to the fact that he was filming a solitary picket, which took place on January 22.
Of the 46 cases, 16 were the extension of the term of detention:
the court extended the term of detention of the defendants in the so-called second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case for six months: Dzhemil Gafarov, Servet Gaziev, Alim Karimov, Seyran Murtaza and Erfan Osmanov, the defendants in the so-called Hizb ut-Tahrir case Ismet Ibrahimov, Vadym Bektemyrov, Emil Ziyadynov, Rustem Sheikhaliev, Ruslan Suleimanov, Yashar Muedinov, Enver Ametov, Alim Sufianov, Seyran Khayredynov, Oleksandr Syzykov, as well as political prisoner Ivan Yatskin.
We remind that the Crimean Tatar Resource Center presented an analysis of human rights violations in the occupied Crimea for the first quarter of 2021. According to the organization, during the reporting period, Russian security forces conducted 22 searches, 146 arrests / detentions and 23 interrogations, interviews and conversations. The total number of arrests in the first three months of this year is 45: 10 – new arrests, 16 – extensions of detention, 19 – sentences. There were 113 cases of violation of the right to a fair trial, 51 – to the healthcare access. Also, 33 cases of transferring of political prisoners of Crimea were recorded. The CTRC report also contains information on the violation of religious rights, environmental norms on the peninsula, on inappropriate conditions in pre-trial detention centers and prisons, on the violation of the rights of political prisoners and illegal military exercises in the occupied Crimea.