Canadian embassy condemns detention of Crimean Tatar activists by Russian FSB
According to Ukrinform, the Canadian Embassy in Ukraine announced this on Twitter.
"Canada condemns the detention of Nariman Dzhelal and 4 other Crimean Tatars by Russia's Federal Security Service. Dzhelal's group was simply exercising its right to freedom of speech and assembly," the tweet reads.
The embassy also called on Russia to release the Crimean Tatars and all political prisoners immediately.
On September 3 and 4, Russian occupation authorities in Crimea conducted mass raids in Crimean Tatars' homes and made a number of detentions. In particular, Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Nariman Dzhelal and four other Crimean Tatars – Aziz Akhtemov, Asan Akhtemov, Shevket Useinov, and Eldar Odamanov – were detained.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry protested against another wave of illegal raids and detentions in the temporarily occupied Crimea.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the raids and detentions in the occupied Crimea were Russia's reaction to the holding of the inaugural Crimea Platform summit in Kyiv and demanded that the detainees be released.
On September 6, the Russian-controlled Kyivsky District Court in Simferopol ordered Dzhelal and his brothers Aziz and Asan Akhtemov to be detained for 60 days until November 4.
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