Forcible disappearances are being recorded yet again in Crimea
Lera DZHEMILOVA, 28 years, the resident of Dzhankoy district, has been abducted and detained by the FSB officers for more than 8 months at an unknown location. Lenora DZHEMILOVA, the mother of the missing Crimean resident, has informed IRADE, the local human rights initiative.
As Lenora DZHEMILOVA states, in May 2024 after the search at Lera DZHEMILOVA’s dwelling, she was transported to the magistrate which ruled to apprehend her for 15 days allegedly for the refusal to undergo the drug screening. Later the FSB officers informed another daughter of Lenora DZHEMILOVA that [the family] should not expect Lera DZHEMILOVA to be freed from the detention centre for the administratively charged persons as after the 15-day apprehension she was to be transported to the FSB. Since then the relatives have had no information on Lera DZHEMILOVA’s whereabouts and the legal status.
As IRADE representatives claim, Lenora DZHEMILOVA, having addressed the FSB Department, got a reply informing that no criminal cases against L.D. DZHEMILOVA had been initiated and investigated. The prosecution office found no grounds for the prosecution measures to be taken and explained that there was no way [for Lenora DZHEMILOVA] to get an elaborated reply on her complaint on abduction [of her daughter] due to non-disclosure of the state secret.
IRADE reiterates that since the beginning of the last year Ismail SHEMSHEDINOV has been missing, after his dwelling was searched by the FSB, before that Farkhad SOLIYEV and his colleague Server ALIYEV went missing. The human rights defenders know about at least 5 more residents of Crimea who went missing after the searches or apprehensions by the FSB officers. In the summer of last year Liudmyla KOLESNIKOVA was abducted, later she claimed to have been detained in SIZO-2 of Simferopol for a few months with no charges and no possibility to inform her relatives.
The apprehensions by the law-enforcement officers, the lengthy incommunicado detention of the abducted persons, the concealment of the information of their whereabouts and the legal status, the denial of legal aid are the evidence of the forcible disappearance. The abduction of Lera DZHEMILOVA bears the features of such war crimes as “ deliberate attack against certain civilians” and “illegal deprivation of freedom” .
The original source (Russian): the telegram channel “Tribunal. Crimean episode”: https://t.me/tribunal_crimean/243
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