28 May

Crimean Tatars held a prayer service (dua) in Bakhchisaray’s mosque on May 24. The World Congress of Crimean Tatars Executive Committee member Ervin Ibragimov was abducted on this day exactly two years ago. Until today, nothing is known about his fate.

The Crimean Tatars Kurultay delegate, Asan Egiz told the details of his abduction.

On Tuesday, May 22, the Kiev District Court in Simferopol imposed a pre-trial restraint to Edem Smailov in a form of arrest in a pre-trial detention center. Crimean Tatar was detained in Dolinnoe village (Bakhchisaray region, Crimea).

Public association «Crimean Solidarity» deems Crimean Tatars’ detention, Server Mustafayev and Edem Smailov, as «persecution for an active civil, religious and national position and intimidation of society as a whole».

Activists ask to sign a petition demanding to begin negotiations on releasing the Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia, as well as to impose sanctions against those people who are responsible for their persecution.

The invaders deport Crimean Tatar Nedim Khalilov to Uzbekistan.

The World Crimean Tatar Congress Executive Committee member, who was kidnapped in Crimea in May 2016, Ervin Ibragimov’s parents appealed to the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, to personally investigate their son’s disappearance.

Hizb ut-Tahrir case figurant Uzeir Abdullayev’s relatives declare about the critical Crimean Tatar’s health state in Crimea. He needs qualified medical care.

Crimean Tatars detained in Belogorsk, Resul Velilyaev and Ali Bariev are under the FSS officers’ control.

It is known now that searches are held at least in 8 houses in Crimea. One Crimean Tatar, Ali Bariev after the search was taken away by the FSS officers then the siloviki left the Rustem Velilyaev’s house. According to relatives, Zera Velilyaeva was taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation afterwards.

On April 24, the Central District Court of Simferopol held a hearing on case «February 26» against the Crimean Tatars Ali Asanov, Mustafa Degermendzhi, Eskender Kantemirov, Arsen Yunusov and Eskender Emirvaliev.

On April 23, at the border crossing checkpoint «Chongar» there was detained a woman who was the presidential candidate Vladimir Putin’s authorized representative during the elections in Russia.

Deputy Head of the Mejlis of Crimean Tatars, Akhtem Chiygoz told the international community about the Russia’s repression against Crimean Tatars in the occupied Crimea at the 17th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in New York on April 18, 2018.

The meeting was to be held on the case of Crimean Tatar Timur Shaymardanov’s missing in the Kiev District Court in Simferopol on April 13, 2018.

Political prisoner Pavel Grib’s health is deteriorating in the pretrial detention center in Krasnodar.

Crimean Tatar political prisoner Ruslan Zeytullaev, convicted for the «Hizb ut-Tahrir case» for 15 years in a strict-regime colony in the Russian Federation, was placed in the punishment cell.

The handmade «Tatarka» tiles laid on the Khan’s Palace roofs in Bakhchisaray are replaced by a stylized Spanish fake. The work on tiling a new roof began on April 8, 2018.

On Thursday, April 5, the Crimean Supreme Court rejected the defense’s appeal to change the restraint measure to Ukrainian political prisoner Vladimir Balukh.

On Thursday, April 5, the Crimean Supreme Court rejected the defense’s appeal to change the restraint measure to Ukrainian political prisoner Vladimir Balukh.

On Thursday, April 5, the Crimean Supreme Court rejected the defense’s appeal to change the restraint measure to Ukrainian political prisoner Vladimir Balukh.