In the occupied Crimea, activists are handed “warnings” on organizing rallies en masse

In the occupied Crimea, Crimean Tatar activists have again started to receive “warnings” on the organization of mass actions and rallies.

In particular, such a document was handed to lawyers Lilia Hemedzhi and Rustem Kyamilev, Crimean Tatar human rights activist and lawyer Nazim Sheikhmambetov and activist Seit-Osman Karaliev.

In addition, an “operative” from the Russian criminal investigation department “Dzhankoy” tried to interview the Crimean Tatar activist Lutfiye Zudiyeva at the request of the “Center for Countering Extremism”.

We would like to remind that such practice was usual before the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation on the peninsula, especially on the eve of commemoration dates such as February 26 (Day of Crimean resistance to Russian occupation) or May 18 (Day of Remembrance of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people). Then the occupiers do not limit themselves to just issuing these “warnings”, they more often began to immediately open administrative cases and impose punishment in the form of arrests or fines.

“This year is the 80th anniversary since the beginning of the deportation of Crimean Tatars from Crimea. And so they do everything to prevent these potential activists from holding something, organizing something. This is intimidation so that if there is an event and if a person is involved in the event, any provocation or the fact that the local occupation administration did not give consent to the event, then immediately an administrative and possibly criminal case will be opened against these people,”- explained the Chairman of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center Eskender Bariiev in a comment to “Suspilne.Krim”.