The manager of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Liudmyla Korotkykh, said on the air of the Crimean Question program that the change in the tactics of repression in Crimea is due to the fact that the occupiers feel a loss and loss of control on the territory of the peninsula.
“I think that this is due to the fact that the occupying authorities and the Russian authorities in general feel that they are losing, losing ground, and also losing control that they have created in the territory of Crimea and in the new occupied territories. Thus, they are trying to deprive more people of the opportunity to speak, at least for a while”,- Korotkykh noted.
According to her, people who were previously arrested and received administrative arrest while they came to support detainees on politically motivated cases later also became political prisoners and persecuted people.
“We also do not rule out that 33 people who are under administrative arrest today may be prosecuted in criminal cases tomorrow and become new victims of the regime. Therefore, I attribute this primarily to the fact that the occupiers are already beginning such an agony, they cannot influence people in any way, they see what they do not do – even more people come out. People are no longer afraid, and the occupants do not understand how to stop this, so they use different methods”,- Liudmyla Korotkykh emphasized.