The attack on basic human rights in the Crimea has continued continuously since the annexation of the Russian peninsula in 2014, activists of the Crimean human rights group and the Human Rights Platform.

In the study "Uncoordinated Freedom: An Analytical Review of Violations of the Freedom of Peaceful Assembly in the Crimea", presented on Monday, June 12, in Kiev, they documented the growing pressure on activists and the actual ban on the peninsula of peaceful citizens' assemblies, writes DW.

Everyone suffers Human rights, enshrined in the UN international covenants and the European Convention on Human Rights, are constantly and systematically violated in the Crimea, the representative of the Crimean Human Rights Group, Olga Skrypnik. According to her, at first repressions concerned mostly pro-Ukrainian Crimeans and Crimean Tatars: "But today almost all categories of Crimean residents - regardless of their political position - suffer from the inability to freely assemble and declare their disagreement with the actions of the authorities".

As previously reported to the Ukrainian media by the Commissioner for the European Court of Human Rights from Ukraine Ivan Leshchina, Kiev filed in the ECHR 160 documents and 50 certificates of violation of the rights of Ukrainians in the Crimea.

Expert "Platform for Human Rights" Alexander Burmagin confirmed that the Russian authorities on the peninsula allow peaceful meetings only loyal citizens to it. "In a report covering three years, you could write only two words: everything is broken," he added..

Ban on the basis of identity Speaking at the presentation of the report of human rights defenders, Crimean Tatar activist Osman Izmailov said that on May 18, on the Day of Remembrance of the Crimean Tatar Deportation Victims, he was detained four times in Simferopol by policemen for a Crimean Tatar flag with a black ribbon.

Head of the Ukrainian Cultural Center of the Crimea Leonid Kuzmin complained that the local authorities refused him seven times to organize cultural gatherings, and the permission was obtained only for the action of the memory of the Ukrainian classic Taras Shevchenko as early as 2014. "This year the permission to lay flowers to the monument to Shevchenko was not given because the participants of the event did not provide information on the absence of their convictions," added Kuzmin.

Human rights defenders also qualify this as persecution of people on the basis of their identity. They called on the Ukrainian authorities to investigate all cases of human rights violations in the Crimea. International organizations were urged to continue monitoring the situation and immediately respond to violations. From the Russian authorities, human rights activists demanded "stop persecuting people for their views".

The international community is protesting Russian media regularly report about the visits of foreign delegations to the Crimea. However, in reality, most often we are talking about small European entrepreneurs, immigrants from the former USSR, right populists and leftist deputies, mainly from regional or city parliaments, from parties that do not have a serious influence even at their level.

On March 17, the European Union officially declared full support for "Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity". In the document, the annexation of the Crimea was called illegal, "a direct challenge to international security" and the world order. Brussels called on all UN countries to join the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia, expressed concern over the militarization of the Crimea and the deterioration of the human rights situation on the peninsula.

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