{"id":130892,"date":"2020-12-04T18:17:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=130892"},"modified":"2020-12-04T18:18:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:18:06","slug":"crimea-new-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/crimea-new-research","title":{"rendered":"Enforced disappearances in Crimea: new research attempts to shed light on what happened"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>On December 1, NGO KrymSOS released the report \u201cEnforced disappearances in Crimea under the occupation by the Russian Federation in 2014-2020\u201d at a news conference at Ukraine Crisis Media Center. That\u2019s the second study that KrymSOS dedicated to the cases of enforced disappearance in the occupied Crimea.&nbsp;<\/em><em>The second edition systematizes all cases of enforced disappearance from 2014-2017 covered by the first report. It then follows up on the fate of the victims that were later found dead, released or arrested, as well as of those still missing.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As activists urge the Ukraine authorities and international community to take action, here\u2019s what we know about the enforced disappearances in Crimea.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to KrymSOS (CrimeaSOS), in Crimea, over the past seven years under the Russian occupation, 44 persons became victims of enforced disappearances. The fate and whereabouts of 15 of them remain unknown.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are Tymur Shaimardanov, Seiran Zinedinov, Islyam Jepparov, Jevdet Islyamov, Eskender Apselyamov, Mukhtar Arislanov, Ruslan Haniyev, Arlen Terekhov, Ervin Ibrahimov, Eskender Ibrayimov, Valeriy Vashchuk, Ivan Bondarets, Vasyl Chernysh, Fedir Kostenko, and Arsen Aliyev.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are Ukrainian and Crimea Tatar activists, or their relatives. The research released by KrymSOS analyzes the cases of those 15 victims of enforced disappearance in the occupied Crimea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Human stories, government response, and global action.&nbsp;<\/strong>When presenting the report, KrymSOS underscored three key aspects \u2013 stories of the people and their families, Ukraine government response, and actions by the international community, paramount to the search of the missing persons, and avoiding impunity for enforced disappearances.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Family members of the Crimeans that went missing, were invited to join remotely the first part of the discussion. Abdureshyt Jepparov (the father of Islyam Jepparov, and uncle of Jevdet Islyamov), and Larysa Shaimardanova (the mother of Tymur Shaimardanov) spoke of the circumstances of the disappearances, search and investigation of those crimes.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t get any attention from the government (of Ukraine \u2013 edit.). Neither does our grandson (the son of Tymur Shaimardanov \u2013 edit.) who is 14 years old now. His voice sounds just like our son\u2019s voice. It\u2019s hard for me to talk to him by phone. Before and after Russia came, these are two different lives. Before, we used to be a normal family. Now our children and grandchildren but Tymur left Crimea, they live in Western Ukraine. We are not in contact with many of our relatives in Russia for that same reason. We blame our tragedy on entire Russia,\u201d said Larysa Shaimardanova.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdureshyt Jepparov noted: \u201cWhen I was interrogated (by Russian investigators in Crimea \u2013 edit.), one of the officers of the investigation committee told me: \u2018It\u2019s time that you get used to (the enforced disappearances \u2013 edit.). In Caucasus, they happen almost every day. Disappearances are routine.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Ukrainian government response.<\/strong>&nbsp;Prosecutor Kyrylo Kopiyka said the Prosecutor\u2019s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol started criminal proceedings to investigate the enforced disappearances in the occupied Crimea. In some of the cases, suspects were identified, while effective investigation and bringing those liable to justice is impeded as the Ukrainian investigators have no access to Crimea.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KrymSOS analyst Yevhen Yaroshenko was quoted as saying that the Ukrainian government needs to put more effort into the search of the victims of enforced disappearance in Crimea and investigation into those crimes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe ask the Ukrainian authorities to make the enforced disappearances their top priority. Compared to other brutal human rights violations in the occupied Crimea, those crimes do not receive enough attention,\u201d Yaroshenko proceeded.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How international community can help.<\/strong>&nbsp;By rolling out personal sanctions against those involved into enforced disappearances, Ukraine\u2019s international partners can help advance the investigation into those cases, the analyst said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legal coordinator at KrymSOS Olha Kuryshko said that the NGO submitted materials of Ervin Ibrahimov\u2019s case to the UN\u2019s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Besides, earlier this year, KrymSOS and the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union helped Ervin Ibrahimov\u2019s father to file a claim to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of his son\u2019s disappearance.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will keep working and recalling the facts of enforced disappearances, underscoring that those acts cannot remain unpunished. We hope that one day we\u2019ll learn what happened, and all those involved in those crimes will be held liable \u2013 including the perpetrators and the Russian Federation as the Occupying Power in the Crimean peninsula,\u201d Olha Kurysho concluded.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 1, NGO KrymSOS released the report \u201cEnforced disappearances in Crimea under the occupation by the Russian Federation in 2014-2020\u201d at a news conference at Ukraine Crisis Media Center. 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