Occupants in Crimea continue repressions against local residents

As of September 23, the occupiers have illegally imprisoned 218 people in Crimea, including 132 Crimean Tatars. Of the total number, 43 are arrested (28 of them are Crimean Tatars), 151 are imprisoned (97 of them are Crimean Tatars), 26 are without status (6 of them are Crimean Tatars).

This was reported by the press service of the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

The report says that 979 cases of receipt of materials drawn up under Art. 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation to the so-called "courts" in the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea were recorded. In 875 of these cases, a decision was made to impose an administrative penalty in the form of a fine or to join the case to another case under another article and make a cumulative decision. In 17 cases, consideration of the materials is ongoing.

It is noted that the blind activist Oleksandr Sizikov, who was illegally abducted and taken to an unknown destination on September 14, 2024 in Crimea, was transferred to a detention center in Bakhchisarai. Also, Aziz Akhtemov, a Crimean Tatar illegally sentenced by Russia to 13 years in prison, was moved from a prison in Yeniseisk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia, to an unknown destination. In addition, the so-called "Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Crimea" approved an indictment in a criminal case against a Ukrainian citizen on fabricated charges of allegedly passing information about the locations of occupation troops to the SBU. The case has been submitted to the "court". Also, a resident of the temporarily occupied Crimea, Artur Agasaryan, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the so-called "court" on trumped-up charges of allegedly trying to blow up the car of an employee of the Russian Federal Security Service in Kerch.

Earlier it was reported that in August 2024, eight cases of transfers were recorded, all of them concerning Crimean Tatars.

Володимир Шкаєв