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RFE/RL: Russian police search homes of two Crimean Tatar activists

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Published April 30, 2019 at 11:54 am

Crimean Tatars flag waves at the ceremony commemorating the victims of the 1944 deportation of the indigenous people of Crimea, the Crimean Tatars, at Sofiyivska Square in Kyiv on May 18, 2018.

Photo by Mykhailo Markiv

Police have searched the homes of two Crimean Tatar activists in Ukraine’s Russia-controlled Crimea region, a Ukrainian human rights group says.

Crimean Solidarity, a human rights group that has members in Crimea and other parts of Ukraine, said that Russian police and security officers searched the homes of Rolan Osmanov and Delyaver Bekirov on the outskirts of the regional capital, Simferopol, on April 30.