The European Parliament on Thursday strongly condemned last month’s decision by Crimea’s Russia-backed authorities to ban the Crimean Tatars’ representative body amid reports that access to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Crimea news website had been blocked in the region.
A resolution passed by the European legislature called the Crimean Supreme Court’s April 26 decision to ban the Tatars’ Mejlis “systemic and targeted persecution” and “an attempt to expel them from Crimea, which is their historical motherland.”
The resolution also said Crimean Tatar institutions and organizations are increasingly being branded as “extremist” and that prominent members of the Crimean Tatar community have been …read more
Source: Voice of America
