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Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov has said that when leaving the annexed Crimea, representatives of Russian special services detained and interrogated the Crimean Tatar human rights activist and volunteer Abdureshit Dzhepparov.

“The Crimean Tatar human rights activist and volunteer Abdureshit Dzhepparov was detained upon leaving Crimea and was interrogated for more than an hour by FSB officers on the administrative border between Armyansk and Kalanchak,” Chubarov wrote on his Facebook page.