THE AFTERMATHS OF THE OCCUPATION: A POLITICAL REPRESSIONS SYSTEM PART 3 in accordance with the Ukrainian law. At pres- ent, there is no special law regulating the issues of peaceful assembly, but we have a direct consti- tutional norm, and this man could freely exercise his right to peaceful as- sembly. This is absolutely unobjectionable. In fact, he is now locked up, and Pictured: Searches in the Kholmovka village on this morning his home February 11, 2016 was searched because he exercised his right un- der the Ukrainian Constitution. This, in my opinion, is an indicator of how the occupying authorities disrespect the law, both Ukrainian national and 21 international .” The Russian lawyer Nikolay Polozov provided similar assessment of methods of per- secution selected by the occupation authorities: “Riots in Russia are the already tried political process; it took place within the “Bolotnaya Square case”. Now the same technology is transferred to Crimea [...] if in other political cases the judges, prosecutors and investigators are only a mechanism, in this case there is a direct personal interest of both the judges and prosecutors, headed by Poklonskaya, which need to prove their loyalty to the Motherland, to prove to Kremlin that they are really good new Russians [...] The events took place in the territory of Ukraine, but Russia judges for some reason. In view of the law – it is an absolute absurdity” 22 Special attention should be paid to the discrimination based on such grounds as na- tionality, language, religion, political or other views, national origin, and ethnicity, which is now common in all spheres of public life. Any of these prohibited grounds (real or alleged) automatically limits the exercise of a person’s social and economic rights. For instance, there is documented evidence of people without Russian pass- ports being denied medical treatment, re-registration of private property, employ- ment, even at a private enterprise etc.23 21 http://www.ombudsman.gov.ua/ua/all-news/pr/30115-es-valeriya-lutkovska-aresht-vo-golovi-medzhlisu- krimskotatarskogo-narodu/ 22 http://news.liga.net/news/politics/8753614-advokat_nazval_delo_chiygoza_zakazom_kremlya.htm 23 Based on the data of the Committee on the Rights of the Crimean Tatar people 47