Threat to the life of political prisoner Bekir Dehermendzhy: statement of human rights defenders
On December 14, 2017, at three o’clock in the morning, 57-year-old Crimean Tatar activist Bekir Dehermendzhy, who was put in the Simferopol SIZO and accused of supposed extortion according to a fabricated...
Crimean Tatar political prisoner Bekir Degermendzhy is dangerously ill
Author: Halya Coynash After causing the death of 83-year-old veteran Crimean Tatar activist Vedzhie Kashka, Russia is endangering the life of 57-year-old Bekir Degermendzhy, arrested as part of a particularly cynical FSB attempt to discredit...
Unlawful searches and detainments of Crimean Tatar national movement activists and veterans in Crimea
STATEMENT 24 November 2017 On 23 November 2017, the peaceful residents of the Crimean peninsula suffered the next wave of the attacks on the part of Russian occupation authorities in Crimea. Russia’s FSB [Federal Security...
Russia causes death of revered veteran of Crimean Tatar movement, then tries to hide it
Author: Halya Coynash 83-year-old Vedzhie Kashka, victim of the 1944 Deportation and veteran of the non-violent struggle of the Crimean Tatar people for their rights, died on November 23 after Russian FSB officers burst into a...