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Ukrinform: Number of raids against Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea doubles

By UkrInform.

Published Sept. 17, 2019 at 4:04 pm

This archive photo shows a Russian traffic police officer speaking with Crimean Tatars holding their flags as they sit in a car during a day of Crimean Tatars' national flag in the Crimean capital Simferopol, on June 26, 2014.

Photo by AFP

The number of searches and raids against Crimean Tatars in the occupied Crimea doubled in the first half of 2019.

Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine Matilda Bogner stated this while presenting a report on the human rights situation in Ukraine between May 16 and August 15, 2019, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.