Vyshinsky said the problem of the persecution of Crimean residents in Ukraine

He said this at a round table of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, dedicated to the protection of Russians abroad.

“I hope that we in the HRC will seriously deal with this problem, since these are no longer separate names ... these are already tens, hundreds, even thousands of people who are either already at risk and already in prisons, or in a big risk zone , which is also a violation of their rights, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

According to him, when he was in the Kherson pre-trial detention center, he learned from lawyers about the initiation of more than six thousand cases against residents of the Crimea.

Vyshinsky added that these people, "who have connections in Ukraine, relatives, acquaintances, relatives," when crossing the border of Crimea with Ukraine, "instantly fall into the category of suspects."

Earlier, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Arlem Desir expressed the hope that all charges will be dropped from Vyshinsky in Ukraine.

Crimea became the Russian region after a referendum held in March 2014, during which the majority of the inhabitants of the peninsula called for reunification with Russia.