EMIR-USEIN KUKU

Emir-Usein Kuku is a Muslim human rights defender and a Contact Group on Human Rights member. After the beginning of the occupation of the Crimean peninsula and the disappearances of Crimean Tatars and searches of their homes, he did not hesitate to join the Crimean Contact Group on Human Rights, which dealt with their disappearances and the legal protection of arrested Crimean Tatars.

Until 2014, Emir-Usein defended the rights of the Crimean Tatars in Yalta and Alushta on a wide variety of issues. In the spring of 2014, he joined the Crimean Contact Group on Human Rights, which tried to prevent kidnappings.

In early 2016, a member of the Crimean Contact Group on Human Rights, Emir-Usein Kuku, was arrested after his home in Koreiza was searched on February 11.

He was accused of participating in the activities of the organisation “Hizb ut-Tahrir”, which was declared “terrorist” in the Russian Federation.

On November 12, 2019, the Russian court announced the sentence to the figures of the “Yalta case”, among whom was Emir-Usein Kuku. The Crimean human rights defender was sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony.