“Crimean Tatars after February 2022” - a conference organized in cooperation with @AnnaFotyga_PE & @UA_EUMission at the @Europarl_EN

It was dedicated to a tragic date - the day of remembrance of victims of the genocide of Crimean Tatars 1/6

Read more: zmina.ua/en/event-en/co… “In 1991, Mejlis was elected - a representative body of Crimean Tatars. We decided to be part of independent 🇺🇦 then,” told Gunlara Abdulaieva.

A little over 20 years have passed, #Crimea suffered the 🇷🇺 occupation in 2014, Mejlis was announced as an extremist organization 2/6

"The United States calls on Russia to immediately halt its systematic “filtration” operations and forced deportations in Russian-controlled and held areas of Ukraine." 1/ state.gov/russias-filtra… "The unlawful transfer and deportation of protected persons is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians and is a war crime." 2/

Thread📢Russia has radically increased its crackdown in the #Crimea
🇷🇺security forces detained 4 lawyers who have been defending victims of human rights abuses since the 1st days of Russian occupation. HRDs condemn detention of Crimean lawyers 1/
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bit.ly/3z3tTb4 While the international community’s main focus is on large-scale war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Russian military in the war zone in Ukraine, gross human rights violations in the occupied Crimea remain virtually unnoticed. 2/

Thread. The number of cases against prisoners of war detained during this phase of the conflict will only increase over time. This is evidenced by indictments that are actively published on the official website of the Office of the Prosecutor General. 1/
zmina.info/en/articles-en… However, the demand for rapid justice or other motives should not be met at the expense of the quality. Otherwise, we risk creating the illusion of justice, which will not result in restoring victims rights or bringing perpetrators to account. 2/

🆘 Thread. Citizen journalist, activist Iryna Danilovych was held incomunicado for 13 days, 8 of which in FSB in the temporarily occupied #Crimea. FSB officers threatened her to force to sign blank official forms.They illegally forced her to go through poligraph test.#TheTaken 1/ In FSB Danilovych was life-threatened, having been illegally held in the FSB for 8 days. FSB put on a plastic bag on Iryna's head threatening her to be taken to a forest. Food was provided once a day during her illegal detention, she was deprived from fulfilling basic needs. 2/

#TheTaken
We demand the Russian Federation urgently release Ukrainian citizen journalist Irina Danilovych and all other victims of enforced disappearances in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea & the city of Sevastopol 1/ Assist the Government of Ukraine in finding and investigating cases of enforced disappearances in the occupied territories.2/