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UkrInform: Canada calls on Russia to denounce banning of Crimean Tatar Mejlis

By UkrInform.

Published May 20, 2019 at 1:13 pm

Armed men stand guard in front of the entrance of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people (the single highest executive-representative body of the Crimean Tatars) in Simferopol on September 16, 2014.

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Canada remains deeply concerned by human rights violations in Crimea under Russian occupation.

“Canada remains deeply concerned by the dire human rights situation on the Crimean peninsula, which is under continued and illegal Russian occupation, as well as by the mistreatment of the Crimean Tatar people and the destruction of their historic sites,” Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland stated.