In Crimea annexed by Russia, a new wave of arrests of Tatars. In Ukraine, the Crimean peninsula has been illegally occupied by Russia for ten years now.
This month of March marks ten years since the referendum – invalidated by the international community. Since the annexation, hundreds of people have been imprisoned, and a wave of Arrests has just hit the Tatar community once again. The homes of ten Tatar activists and religious leaders were illegally searched and their occupants arrested in Crimea. They are accused by the Russian occupier of terrorism on the Crimea peninsula.