There is no contact with Crimeans arrested on February 21 – lawyer

There is no contact with eleven Crimean Tatars, who were arrested in occupied Simferopol.

As reported by lawyer Emil Kurbedinov on his Facebook page.

“Friends and relatives of 11 arrested started calling me. Currently, there is no clarity regarding the fates of 11 arrested Crimean Tatars. They are not responding, they have not reported their location upon the arrival at the place of confinement”, – wrote lawyer.

Kurbedinov also emphasized that there is another fact of human rights violations.

“They are not allowed to make daily phone calls and it is violation of the current legislation! Also, people under administrative arrest have the right to meet their relatives”, – he said.

As a reminder, on February 21, activist Marlen Mustafayev was detained for publication made in 2014 on social network for allegedly demonstrating symbolic of the Hizb ut-Tahrir political organization, which is banned in Russia. On the morning of the same day, his house was searched by security forces.

At the same time, police has detained 10 Crimean Tatars, who were filming these events on the phones and were broadcasting them.

They were sentenced to an administrative arrest for a term of 5 days for “unauthorized mass event”.

Mustafayev was sentenced to 11 days of arrest.