Over the past four years, almost 5,000 cases of human rights violations have been recorded in Crimea, occupied by the Russian Federation, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center (CRC) reports in its analysis.
“How many major human rights violations were there in 2017-2020? These are 4,950 violations that we know about,” CRC manager Liudmyla Korotkikh said on May 11 at the presentation of an analysis of the situation in the occupied Crimea as of 2020.
According to her, most of all violations during this time were the right to a fair trial (40%), 15% of violations are accounted for arrests and interrogations, and 13% are accounted for arrests. According to the study, the share of violations related to illegal transportation was 5%, the same figure is related to searches and 7% are related to violations of the right to health.
According to chairman of the CRC Eskender Bariyev, human rights defenders record facts of human rights violations in the occupied Crimea this year as well.
“In the first quarter of 2021, some 33 Ukrainian citizens were transferred from the occupied Crimea to the territory of the Russian Federation,” Bariyev said, equating illegal transfer to deportation.
As Korotkikh said, illegally detained citizens of Ukraine are transported from Crimea to the Rostov region of the Russian Federation for court sessions. According to her, one of the reasons for such a transfer is overcrowding of the Simferopol pretrial detention center.
In addition, according to the presented analysis, during the study period, 21 facts of enforced disappearances were recorded, of which 15 were disappearances of indigenous Crimean Tatar people.
