Halya Coynash: Home of Mustafa Jemiliev searched
In the latest affront to veteran Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Jemiliev and to the Crimean Tatars on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of the Deportation, a search has been carried out of Jemiliev’s home.
His wife, Safinar was taken ill as a result and needed to be hospitalized. 71-year-old Mustafa Jemiliev, former Mejlis leader and Ukrainian MP, could not be there since Russia has banned his entry to the Russian Federation – and his native Crimea which Russia annexed in March. He explains that he received a phone call telling him that a search was being carried out of his house and that his wife was in hospital. “OMON [Russian riot police] with automatic rifles surrounded the whole block. There were 11 or 12 buses, they appear to have been preparing for some kind of war”.