Гаряча лінія
Гаряча лінія
Russia persecutes activists and human rights defenders in the temporarily occupied territories of the Crimean Peninsula and Luhansk Oblast.
Today, russian security forces searched the home of human rights activist, veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement Abdureshit Dzhepparov in Belogorsk. Lawyers were not allowed to see Dzhepparov.
After the search, russian security forces took A. Dzhepparov and two Crimean Tatars, Muhammad Ali Dzhepparov and Fevzi Yakubov, who were at his home, to the Belogorsk Regional Police Department.
Currently, the Belogorsk District Court of Crimea has arrested A. Dzhepparov for 15 days on charges of promoting banned symbols. A report on it was drawn up based on the fact that it was published on Facebook in 2019.
Similar arrests are recorded in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region. To date, 47 cases of arrests of pro-Ukrainian activists are known in the cities of Markivka, Starobilsk, Novoaydar, and Stanytsia-Luhanska.
The so-called "prosecutors of the Luhansk People's Republic" have been fabricating case materials based on the information gathered since 2016 - posts on social networks, conversations on political topics, participation in political parties, etc.
Arbitrary detentions and arrests of residents of the occupied territories violate Article 5 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
I ask the international community to take these facts into account when increasing the pressure on the terrorist state to end the war and withdraw the army of Russian invaders from Ukraine.