In Crimea, Mejlis members underwent “mass searches” in the amount of four

Russian law enforcement officers conducted inspections early this morning in four homes of Crimean Tatars, while the leaders of the Majlis, banned in the Russian Federation, have already announced “mass searches” and “Russian occupiers breaking into houses.”

In addition, throughout the day, stories about torture and abuse suffered by allegedly detained Crimean Tatars were published on social networks.

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However, the Crimean Tatars themselves, whose houses were visited by security forces in the morning, deny this information. So Ruslan Belyalov from Stary Krym said that the police behaved politely. He was shown a court order to inspect the home on suspicion of extremist calls.

Immediately after the search, Ruslan told his fellow villagers that his things were handled with care. They were only interested in extremist literature; in addition, they confiscated all phones and computers, drawing up the necessary papers. He didn’t even express any particular complaints about the fact that a door in one of the rooms had been knocked out.

In Belyalov’s house there were 5 young people who were not his relatives. They were taken to the police station for document checks and quickly released. The young people refused to give fingerprints.

Since the situation, although unpleasant for the defendants, did not warrant a report from the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, by the evening Belyalov stated that after the police left, a large sum of money disappeared from him.

Another “search” took place in Bakhchisarai at the place of photographer Seytumer Seytumerov. His wife also rushed to blame the law enforcement officers for the loss of an expensive camera, which was later successfully “found.”

Seitumerov was charged with an administrative offense of demonstrating extremist symbols on social networks. Apparently, they were talking about the prohibited Majlis. At the trial, the photographer stated that if he published such symbols, it was before Crimea became part of Russia. He was awarded a fine of 2 thousand rubles.

Both Seitumerov and Belyalov admit that they actively supported members of the extremist organization Hizb-ut-Tahrir on social networks, several cells of which were identified by security forces during the year.

Let us note that today’s events, as well as the arrests of the Hizbs, took place in front of a large crowd of people. Crimean Tatars demonstrated solidarity with their fellow tribesmen, prayed and shouted “Allahu Akbar!”