The Bizim Balalar and Crimean Childhood charities were created to help children whose fathers are political prisoners.
As many as 177 children of arrested Crimean Tatar activists and citizen journalists in Russia-occupied occupied Crimea grow up without fathers.
This was announced by coordinator of the Crimean Childhood project, the wife of the convicted person involved in the second Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Bakhchysarai Mumine Saliyeva during an online conference of NGO Crimean Solidarity.
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"As a result of mass searches in March and July this year, 19 children were added to the lists of children of political prisoners and two more were born after their fathers had been arrested. Today, 177 underage children are growing up without their fathers, and 25 of them have severe medical diagnoses due to stress. We record psychosomatic and physiological changes of each child almost daily, and this is an important problem that needs to be monitored by human rights commissioners, state and international institutions for the protection of children's rights," she said.
After Russia had occupied Crimea, the Bizim Balalar [Our Children] and Crimean Childhood charities were created on the peninsula. They help children whose fathers were arrested for political reasons.