The head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov, has called new raids and arrests in Crimea “large-scale provocations” and “attempts to discredit the Mejlis.”
“The press service of the ‘Crimean office of the Federal Security Service’ spread information that allegedly ‘officers of the FSB office for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol’… detained two residents of the Bakhchisaray district on suspicion of participating in an organization banned in the Russian Federation, Hizb ut-Tahrir, who are ‘charged with committing a crime’ envisaged by Part 2, Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of a terrorist organization),” Chubarov wrote on his Facebook page.
