Russian security forces in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea raided two houses belonging to Crimean Tatars in the city of Simferopol on Friday morning, January 5, according to NGO Crimean Solidarity.
Another Crimean resident, a local woman, was detained by Russian law enforcers in the occupied Crimea's Simferopol Dec 26 as raids and searches continue across the peninsula, according to RFE/RL's Krym-Realii media project reports.
The SBU Security Service of Ukraine is conducting a series of raids on local officials' houses in the city of Zaporizhia on Thursday, December 21.
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has adopted a resolution tightening the rules for state registrars in order to eliminate the possibility of their assistance in illegal seizures of agrarian assets, according to a relevant decision made at a government meeting on Wednesday, December 6.
Law No. 2213-VIII on mandatory video recording of search operations by law-enforcement agencies came into force in Ukraine on Thursday, December 7, 2017.
Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli has condemned recent searches in the houses of Crimean Tatars in Russian-occupied Crimea.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, passed government-prepared draft law No. 7275 in the first reading and as a whole on November 16 to amend some legislative acts to ensure that law enforcement agencies observe the rights of participants in criminal proceedings and other persons amid pre-trial investigations, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Members of the Ukrainian SBU Security Service's department in Zaporizhia region are raiding the Zaporizhia City Hall premises on August 1, according to the Ukrainian-language service of Radio Liberty.
Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) jointly with the National Police and the State Fiscal Service raided state-owned company Ukrenergo's headquarters in Kyiv on Wednesday as part of an investigation into embezzlement of public funds, according to the PGO's press service.