Prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (located in the building of Prosecutor General's Office in Kyiv) has launched a criminal proceeding over illegal ban of Mejlis of Crimean Tatars in Crimea, Ukrainian PGO reported.
“Prosecutor Office carries procedural actions into the criminal case over the doings of illegally set ‘prosecution agencies of the Republic of Crimea’ meant to illegally ban the representative body – Mejlis of Crimean Tatar people,” reads a report of a PGO media liaisons office on Tuesday.
According to the report, the aforementioned fact “is an evidence of continued repression against Crimean Tatar people and all the citizens, who oppose temporarily occupation of the territory of Ukraine by Russian Federation and by the so-called “prosecution agencies of the Republic of Crimea”.
“The self-proclaimed government under the pretext of counteraction to extremist activities attempts to deprive Crimean Tatars of the representative body, insistently ignoring international law in sector of the rights of native populations. In particular, UN Declaration on the Rights of native People approves the right of such people for their own representative institutions,” the PGO said.
Ukrainian law enforcement stress that through the ban of Mejlis activities occupational authorities of Crimea violate “the quality of life of citizens and intentionally humiliating national dignity of Crimean Tatar people.”
According to Article 1 of the law of Ukraine “On provision of rights and freedom and legal regime on temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine” the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine is an integral part of Ukraine that faces Constitution and the laws of Ukraine.
“Therefore, this proves illegality of the actions of Crimean occupational government, which attempts to unreasonably ban the work of the representative agency of the national self-governance of Crimean Tatars, hampering legacy of Mejlis,” the report said.
