Committee to Protect Human Rights in Crimea Being Formed

In the near future, the International Committee for Human Rights Protection in the Occupied Crimea will begin its work in Ukraine.

This was stated by Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov, reports Krym Realii.

“We are now talking with lawyers and other public figures about the possibility of the creating an International Committee that would concentrate on human rights in Crimea,” said Chubarov.

“In the near future we will be able to publish the principles of this committee.”

Authoritative experts, representatives of NGOs, and others who have been engaged in Crimean human rights issues over past the two years will be invited to participate.

One of the objectives of the committee will be to develop a mechanism for lawyers to visit Crimea in order to participate in trials of Ukrainian citizens on the peninsula, as well as to protect their interests.

After the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, a wave of persecutions against pro-Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar activists began. Russia denies its repressions against Crimeans.