A spokesperson for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Mariana Betsa, has criticized the Russian Supreme Court ruling which banned the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People.
“The ban of the supreme representative body of the Crimean Tatar People under the invented pretext of combating extremism is outright blasphemy over the rights of the Crimean Tatars,” Betsa told Interfax-Ukraine on Sept. 29.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expects international partners to continue pressuring Russia, and do more to protect human rights in Crimea, she said.
Earlier on Sept. 29, the Russian Supreme Court definitively upheld the ban on the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People in Russia as an extremist organization, having thus rejected the appeal filed by Mejlis representatives.
