Russian law enforcement officers on Wednesday, March 11, staged mass searches in the homes of Crimean Tatar activists in Bakhchisarai on the territory of annexed Crimea. This was announced on Twitter by lawyer Nikolai Polozov.

According to him, among others, the search is in the house of the journalist of the ATR television channel Seytumer Seytumerova. The reasons for the searches are still unknown.. Russian law enforcement agencies do not comment on the action in any way.

At the same time, as reported by the Crimean Solidarity public association, law enforcement officers did not let his lawyer Edem Semedlyaev go to Seytumerov. " But, unfortunately, no reaction is happening so far, "

After the annexation of Crimea by Russia in the spring of 2014, independent journalists, civic activists, activists of the Crimean Tatar national movement, as well as Muslims suspected of having ties to the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization banned in Russia, are being persecuted.

Crimean Tatar Resource Center NGO in January published a traditional report on human rights violations in Crimea in 2019.

According to him, over the year 86 searches, 157 detentions, 194 interrogations, interviews, “conversations”, 335 cases of arrest were recorded on the peninsula, of which 43 (two in absentia) were new arrests in criminal “cases”.

Regarding Political Prisoners of Crimea 33 Sentences. In addition, 578 cases of violation of the right to a fair trial and 69 cases of the transfer of political prisoners are known.. “Indicators in a number of categories are record highs over the past three years,” the document says.. It is reported by Deutsche Welle.