Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimea Tatar People Ilmi Umerov says Ukraine should appeal to international organizations for help in the rescue of the world-renowned Khan's Palace in the occupied Crimea from Russia's so-called 'restoration work,' which destroys its identity, according to RFE/RL's Krym-Realii media project.
Kurt Volker, the U.S. special envoy for efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, has met with Crimean Tatar leaders Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz, who were released from custody in their Russian-occupied homeland this week, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
As Crimean Tatar leaders Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz arrived in Kyiv on Friday afternoon, after being freed from a Russian prison in the occupied Crimea on Wednesday, the Director of Amnesty International Ukraine Oksana Pokalchuk made a statement.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has awarded Deputy Chairmen of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz, according to the president's press service.
Crimean Tatar leaders Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz, who were released from custody in their Russian-occupied homeland this week, have arrived in Kyiv and defiantly vowed to return to the Black Sea peninsula, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Deputy Chairmen of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz, who have recently been freed by Russia and extradited to Turkey, have arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine, according to Ukrainian journalist and coordinator of the Stop Terror Group Semen Kabakaev.
Minister of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) of the United Kingdom for Europe Alan Duncan has welcomed the release of the Crimean Tatar leaders and drawn attention to the considerable number of Ukrainian political prisoners who continue to be detained by Russia.
Deputy chairmen of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz, who were freed by Russia and extradited to Turkey, are expected to arrive in Kyiv by plane on October 27, according to acting minister for information policy Emine Dzheppar (Dzhaparova).
Crimean Crimean Tatar Mejlis Chairman Refat Chubarov, who is also Member of Parliament in Ukraine from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction, has said Deputy Chairmen of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz, who were illegally sentenced in occupied Crimea and extradited to Turkey, are "forbidden" to reside in occupied Crimea.
Russian lawyer Nikolay Polozov has announced that Ukrainian political prisoners, Crimean Tatars Akhtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov, who were convicted by the Russian occupying authorities in the annexed Crimea, have been freed from criminal prosecution.
The European Union says that the sentencing of Crimean Tatar leader and Deputy Chair of the Mejlis Ilmi Umerov, 60, for "calling for separatism and the violation of Russia's territorial integrity" is a serious violation of his human rights.
Russian-controlled Simferopol District Court on Wednesday sentenced deputy chairman of the Mejlis of Crimean Tatars Ilmi Umerov, 60, to two years in a settlement colony for "calling for separatism and the violation of Russia's territorial integrity," according to Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty's Ukrainian Service.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the framework of participation in the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly, as reported by the Ukrainian president’s press service.
Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimea Tatar People Ilmi Umerov who is now being tried by Russia-controlled court in the occupied Crimea says he will soon be handed down a "verdict," according to his Facebook post.
A Crimean Tatar leader who has criticized Russia's seizure of the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine has gone on trial on June 7, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
A Crimean Tatar leader who has criticized Russia's seizure of the Black Sea peninsula appears likely to face trial soon on what he says are spurious charges of separatism, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.