The occupation authorities of Crimea continue to put pressure on the Crimean Tatars. On April 25, it became known that Russian security forces detained public figure and human rights activist Abdureshit Dzhepparov after a search of his house.. It is reported by Radio Liberty with reference to the human rights organization "

It is reported that the security forces came to him at about 7:00, confiscated his phones and did not allow him to call a lawyer.

“The search ended half an hour ago. He was taken away. They didn’t have time to call a lawyer, because they immediately took away the phones. At the time of the search, there was a wife and a 14-year-old daughter in the house,” said a relative of Dzhepparov.

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This is his second arrest.. He was detained for the first time on March 16, also after a search in his house.. At that time, lawyers were also not allowed into Dzhepparov, and after a search, the security forces took him to the regional police department.. Later, the Russian-controlled Belogorsk District Court arrested him for 15 days on charges of “propaganda of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols” on social networks.. On March 31, he was released after 15 days of administrative arrest..

On March 25, when it became known about the second detention of Dzhepparov, President Volodymyr Zelensky reacted to this, calling it an act of repression against the Crimean Tatar people.

“Today the invaders broke into the house of Abdureshit Dzhepparov. He is one of the representatives of the Crimean Tatar national movement, a human rights activist, a citizen of Ukraine. Where is he now, what happened to him is unknown. This is another example of Russian repressions against the indigenous people of Crimea, all our people. Thousands and thousands of such examples during the time of aggression both in Crimea and in our other regions occupied by Russia,” Zelensky said in an evening video message.

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Recall that back in December last year, Russian infidels arrested and are still holding in a detention center a citizen of Ukraine, a Crimean Tatar Leniya Umerova. The girl was detained at the Georgian-Russian border at the moment when she was heading from Kyiv to Crimea through Georgia to take care of her terminally ill father.

The reason is that native Crimean Leniya Umerova refused her Russian passport..

After the first summit of the International Crimean Platform, all the threats associated with the occupation of Crimea only escalated and became a reality. The peninsula, turned into a military base by the occupiers, has become a springboard for a new invasion of Ukraine. Read about what was done a year after the inaugural ITUC summit in the article by Emine Dzhaparova “Why the war between Ukraine and Russia should end in Crimea”.