Three people were detained in Crimea for Crimean Tatar flags on cars

In the annexed Crimea, the police detained three Crimean Tatars who intended to climb White Rock with Crimean Tatar flags in the Belogor district of the peninsula.

As Krym.Realii reports, the police drew attention to a convoy of several cars, two of which had flags on them. It was for them that Rustem Kurnosov, Enver Asafov and Ebabil Ibragimov were detained. There were no slogans or appeals while the cars were moving.

The detainees were taken to the Belogorsk police department. It is still unknown what they are charged with.

• After the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Russian authorities began mass persecution of the Crimean Tatars on the peninsula. Criminal cases against them are often brought under the articles of terrorism only on the basis of searches of religious literature. At the moment, several hundred people are under arrest and in long-term imprisonment. Most of them are recognized as political prisoners by international human rights organizations. The Crimean Tatars themselves believe that they are being persecuted solely for disagreeing with the annexation of the peninsula.
• According to activists, during the first quarter of this year, Russian law enforcement agencies in Crimea detained at least 49 representatives of the Crimean Tatar people. The UN General Assembly condemned the “new unprecedented wave” of arbitrarily detained, forcibly displaced and disappeared people on the peninsula.