{"id":4293,"date":"2021-09-05T23:25:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T23:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/more-than-50-crimean-tatars-detained-in-russia-annexed-crimea.html"},"modified":"2021-09-05T23:25:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T23:25:54","slug":"more-than-50-crimean-tatars-detained-in-russia-annexed-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/more-than-50-crimean-tatars-detained-in-russia-annexed-crimea.html","title":{"rendered":"More Than 50 Crimean Tatars Detained In Russia-Annexed Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than 50 Crimean Tatars have been detained by the Russian intelligence service in Ukraine\u2019s Russia-controlled Crimea region, Ukrainian officials said on September 4. <\/p>\n

Ukrainian Ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova said Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service, the FSB, had first detained five minority Crimean Tatar activists, including well-known activist Nariman Dzhelyal, the deputy chairman of the Mejlis representative body for the Tatars in Crimea, and raided their homes.<\/p>\n

In response, more than 50 Crimean Tatars gathered in front of the FSB’s branch in Crimea’s capital, Simferopol, to protest the detentions.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a result, more than 50 Crimean Tatars have been detained," Denisova wrote on Facebook on September 4. <\/p>\n

Some of them were brutally forced onto police buses, Denisova said, adding that two journalists were among those detained. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey were shoved into buses with force and beaten and taken to different police precincts in the temporarily occupied Crimea, where they’re being questioned without lawyers present,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Denisova called on \u201cthe entire international community to use all possible leverage…in order to end repressions against the indigenous population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russian authorities have not yet commented on the arrests. <\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy demanded the release of the detained Crimean Tatars in a tweet on September 4. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe occupants of Crimea once again resort to persecution of Crimean Tatars. Regular raids and detentions take place in their homes,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote. \u201cAll those detained must be freed!\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Russia seized Crimea in 2014, Russian authorities have prosecuted dozens of Crimean Tatars for allegedly belonging to the Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group, which is banned in Russia but not in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Moscow\u2019s takeover of the peninsula was vocally opposed by many Crimean Tatars, who are a sizable minority in the region. <\/p>\n

Exiled from their homeland to Central Asia by the Soviet authorities under dictator Josef Stalin during World War II, many Crimean Tatars are very wary of Russia and Moscow’s rule.<\/p>\n

Rights groups and Western governments have denounced what they describe as a campaign of repression by the Russian-imposed authorities in Crimea who are targeting members of the Turkic-speaking Crimean Tatar community and others who have spoken out against Moscow’s takeover of the peninsula.<\/p>\n

Russia took control of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 after sending in troops, seizing key facilities, and staging a referendum dismissed as illegal by at least 100 countries. Moscow also backs separatists in a war against government forces that has killed more than 13,200 people in eastern Ukraine since April 2014.<\/p>\n

With reporting by AP and dpa <\/p>\n