A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 the Syrian Republic and the possible connection between the said circumstance and the incident. Mukhtar Arislanov On August 27, 2015, a resident of the Fountains district of Simferopol Mukhtar Arislanov was abducted. According to his wife, he went shop- ping and never returned home. According to NurR e Karakash, sister of Ab- ducted Narislanov the locals saw a few people dressed in police uniforms putting Mukhtar Arislanov get into the Mercedes Vito minibus. After that, some of these people also got into the minibus, and some to LadaPriora and drove away in the direction of Simferopol. The 45-year-old Mukhtar Arislanov worked as a PT teacher in one of the schools in Simferopol district. He was a judo coach. The telephone connection with him was lost in the afternoon of the same day. The relatives went to the police, R led R le a missing person report; the police said that they had nothing to do with the disappearance of Mustafa Arislanov. The Field Human Rights Center reported that the investigation authorities put psychological pressure on Arislanov’s wife in order to force her to withdraw the application on the abduction. As reported on the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federa- tion on the Republic of Crimea, a criminal case on the grounds of an oT ense under Part 1 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the RF (murder) was opened. Cases with no signs of forced disappearance There are several more cases which give no reasons to suggest abduction, and some of these cases are under investigation, but distrust to the investigation in respect of the previous episodes (including, in particular, the murder of Reshat Ametov taken away from the central square of Simferopol by unidentiR ed men in camouU age uniforms on March 3) give rise to a variety of versions, including the involvement of law enforcement agencies or paramilitary forces in all these episodes. 71