Crimean Tatar Mejlis given 24 hours to leave

2014/9/19 12:33:08

Attacks by the illegal Crimean administration against the Muslim Crimean Tatars continue with what increasingly appears to a determined offensive against the existing Tatar leadership and introduction of new leadership by a criminal element from Russia


From Human Rights in Ukraine

Information website of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

 

By Halya Coynash, Sep 17, 2014

 

If any Crimean Tatar had hoped that fears about Russia’s occupation of their homeland were unfounded, hope died on Sept 17.  The Mejlis or representative body of the Crimean Tatar People has been given 24 hours to ‘vacate’ their headquarters in Simferopol.  

 

Associations with the Deportation when all Crimean Tatars were given just half an hour to prepare for exile are perhaps exaggerated, however the reminders of Soviet repression are increasing by the day.

 

The occupation regime has formally targeted the Crimea Fund charitable organization which owns the relevant building on Schmidt St; however their real aim is clearly the Mejlis. 

 

According to a court writ read out on Sept 17 to the head of the Crimea Fund and member of the Mejlis, Riza Shevkiyev, the building must be ‘evacuated’ within 24 hours.  If it is not, all property will be seized and nobody will be allowed to enter.

 

The official grounds cited for the move are a writ issued by the Central District Court of Simferopol on Sept 15 (case № 2-1688/14).

 

This document prohibits the charity from carrying out any of its powers as owner of the Mejlis headquarters and six other addresses, including its right to lease or sell the properties.  If the Fund fails to comply with this court order, it could face criminal prosecution.

 

This surreal writ has been issued “to defend the interests of an unspecified circle of individuals” in a law suit against the Crimea Fund.  These mysterious individuals’ “interests’ are to be further protected by the Crimea Fund’s bank accounts in Vladimkombank being frozen.  The Fund is prohibited from opening new accounts.

 

Shevkiyev refused to sign that he had read any of the documents presented saying that he has never been informed of any debt incurred by him or the Fund.  Mustafa Dzhemilev, veteran Crimean Tatar leader prohibited from returning to his homeland in April this year, called it an attack by bandits. He poured scorn over the so-called court writ saying that the judge who purportedly issued it has been on leave for some time.  

 

The move came after the major operation on Tuesday during which armed men blocked access to the Mejlis building, while the FSB spent 11 hours searching the building.  It seems likely that they were hoping to find something ‘incriminating’, and having failed to do so, chose another line of attack.

 

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http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1410985865

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