The names of arrested Crimean Tatar activists will be repeatedly announced at the UN session in Geneva - Ukrainian Foreign Ministry

Присяжнюк Владислава
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12:20, 15 September
The names of arrested Crimean Tatar activists will be repeatedly announced at the UN session in Geneva - Ukrainian Foreign Ministry
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The 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council began in Geneva on September 3, during which a discussion of the situation in the occupied Crimea is planned. In particular, Ukraine intends to draw attention to the searches, detentions and arrests of Crimean Tatar activists carried out by the occupying security forces in Crimea on September 3-4.

This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

It is noted that over the four weeks, delegates will consider more than 90 reports prepared by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Secretary-General, UN human rights mechanisms, covering both specific human rights issues and situations in certain countries.

Among other things, as noted in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the report of the Office of the High Commissioner on the situation in the field of human rights in Ukraine, prepared by the UN Monitoring Mission for Human Rights in Ukraine, will be discussed.

"Gross violations of human rights by the Russian occupation administration in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, including the facts of illegal searches, arbitrary detentions, arrests and other illegal actions of Russia against Ukrainian citizens, will be condemned. Jelal and other Kremlin prisoners will be repeatedly heard in the courtroom calling for their immediate release" - was informed in the statement.

According to the agency, the topic of the Ukrainian delegation's speech at various items on the agenda of the session will also be the human rights situation in Russia, in particular in the context of "increasing harassment of ethnic Ukrainians living in Russia and other national, religious and linguistic minorities".

What is known

  • On September 3 and 4, five Crimean Tatars were detained in Simferopol and Yevpatoria: businessman Eldar Adamanov, brothers Aziz and Asan Akhtemov, Shevket Useinov, and deputy chairman of the Crimean Tatar People's Majlis Nariman Dzhellyalov on suspicion of blowing up a gas pipeline in the village.
  • Dozens of people, including relatives, journalists and lawyers, came to the FSB building demanding information about the detainees.
  • More than forty of them were detained, including journalists of "Crimean Solidarity" and "Graney.ru" Ayder Kadyrov and Nuri Abdurashitov.