Crimean Tatars searched and four women detained in Crimea

This morning, a series of searches of Crimean Tatars' homes took place in Russia-annexed Crimea. Investigative actions were carried out in Bakhchisaray district, as well as in villages that administratively belong to Sevastopol.

This was also reported by the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov.

The FSB officers detained four women, all of whom were taken to the so-called 'FSB office in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol' in Simferopol. Among the detainees is <b>Esma Nimetulayeva</b> from Bakhchisarai, who is a mother of many children and the wife of political prisoner Remzi Nimetulayev. The searches also took place in the houses of <b>Nasiba Saidova</b> (a student of the pedagogical college) and <b>Elviza Aliyeva</b> in Bakhchisarai district, as well as in the house of <b>Fevziye Osmanova</b> in the village of Orlivka, Sevastopol district.

The Crimean human rights group has previously stated that such persecution of women in the temporarily occupied territories, especially in Crimea, is <b>a targeted policy of Moscow</b>. The Russian authorities are deliberately stepping up repression, resorting to threats to deprive them of parental rights and charges under articles on 'treason' and 'espionage'.

Earlier, in the occupied village of Rykove (Partizany) in the Genichesk district of Kherson region, Russian occupiers organized repressions against Crimean Tatars. Since the beginning of the occupation, at least ten cases of detentions have been confirmed within the framework of the so-called 'Noman Chelebidzhikhan case'.

The village is located 3 km southeast of the M-18 highway. Before the occupation , almost 3.5 thousand people lived here, and there was an elevator, several businesses, a school and a kindergarten. After the arrival of the Russian military , the peaceful village was turned into a military base, and the elevator from which the occupiers stole grain was used as an ammunition depot.

Among the detainees are 63-year-old Nasrullah Seidaliev, deputy chairman of the Kherson Mejlis, who was sentenced to nine years in prison by the occupiers, and 26-year-old Ayder Umerov, who was sentenced to six years in a strict regime colony.

Rustem Virati was also arrested and sentenced to eight years, and his family learned of his death in prison in Dimitrovgrad in February 2025. Members of the Mejlis Dursun Asan and Kestan Eldar were sentenced to 3.6 years in prison, ambulance driver Lenur Khalilov to 3.5 years, and Velilyaev Kazim to 3.6 years. Among those arrested was 56-year-old Elmira Umerova, as well as 64-year-old Abdurakhmanov Belial, who was sentenced to eight years, and a driver with a disability, Seydali Smailov, who was tortured with electric shock and forced to make false statements on camera.

Катерина Глушко