The U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has appealed to the Russian side with a demand for the release of Crimeans detained on political grounds.
At the Permanent Council in Vienna, Deputy Chief of Mission Elisabeth Rosenstock-Siller said the mission calls on Russia to immediately release Nariman Dzhelyal, Aziz and Asan Akhtemov, Eldar Odamanov, and Shevket Useinov, as well as more than 100 other Crimean political prisoners whom she unjustly imprisoned.
According to her, the reports of the detention and torture of those detained on September 3 and 4 “unfortunately largely agree with the stories of other Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians held by the Russian Federal Security Service in Crimea under political pretexts.”
Rosenstock-Siller said Russia must stop its baseless and vindictive repression against the Crimean Tatar community.
