The meeting was attended by the leadership and members of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Turkish Ombudsman Şeref Malkoç, Representative of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol Elvin Kadyrov, Deputy Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Denys Chystiakov, representatives of the Embassy of Turkey in Ukraine, volunteers, heads and representatives of charitable organisations that assist in providing support and rehabilitation to children of political prisoners of Crimea and their families.
In particular, the meeting was joined by Eskender Bariiev, Chairman of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Centre, Head of the Department of External Relations and Human Rights Protection of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People.
At the meeting, the participants discussed the mechanisms and ways that can be used to provide humanitarian aid to the families of political prisoners and directly to release them from Russian captivity.
As a reminder, 255 children in the occupied Crimea are already forced to grow up without their own father, without his daily support, guidance and care. And 15 children were born in the absence of their arrested fathers.
Unfortunately, the Russian Federation has already broken the lives of tens of thousands of children, as the occupation of Crimea has equally affected both adults and children. The Crimean Tatar Resource Centre has repeatedly spoken about this and dedicated the film ‘Bring Me Back My Dad’ to this topic, which tells the stories of children whose parents were imprisoned or forcibly abducted after the occupation of the peninsula.