This morning, October 15, representatives of the occupation administration simultaneously broke into several homes of Crimean Tatar women. In Bağçasaray, they detained Esma Nimetulaieva, a mother of several children and the wife of political prisoner Remzi Nimetulaiev. In the village of Kholmivka in the same raion, the occupiers searched the home of Nasiba Saidova, a student at a pedagogical college who works as a kindergarten teacher.

Searches are also underway in other localities of the Bağçasaray raion — in Dolynne, where security forces broke into the home of Elviza Alieva, and in Orlivka, where they are searching the residence of Fevziye Osmanova.

According to preliminary reports, all detainees are being taken to the FSB office of the Russian Federation in Simferopol.

The Mission of The President of Ukraine in Autonomous Republic of Crimea strongly condemns yet another unlawful act committed by the Russian occupation authorities against the Crimean Tatar people, as part of their ongoing policy of intimidation and suppression of any manifestation of dissent. Such actions constitute a gross violation of international humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions, and fundamental human rights.

These repressive measures are systematic and form part of the occupation authorities’ deliberate strategy of displacement, isolation, and the destruction of identity on the temporarily occupied peninsula. The Representation calls on Ukrainian and international media, human rights organizations, and the global community to disseminate the truth about the persecution in Crimea so that none of the occupiers’ crimes go unnoticed.