THE AFTERMATHS OF THE OCCUPATION: A POLITICAL REPRESSIONS SYSTEM PART 3 • Criminal prosecution of peaceful demonstration participants in connection with the ban on entry to the Crimea of the leader of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev on May 3, 2014 Tahir Smedlyaev, Edem Osmanov, Rustam Abdurakhmanov, Edem Ebulisov, Musa Abkerimov, who were found guilty of using violence against a representative of authorities and punished by a R ne or 25 conditional punishment ; • Criminal prosecution for participation in the peaceful meeting on February 26, 2014 of the Crimean Tatar TV channel cameraman Eskender Nebiev, Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis Akhtem Chiygoz and other Crimean Tatars Talyat Yunusov, Ali Asanov, Mustafa Degeremendzhy; • Automatic ban on all public events on the eve of the prayer commemoration dedicated to the anniversary of the deportation of Crimean Tatars by a decree of the self-proclaimed head of Crimea, ban on celebration of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr in July 2015; • So-called ‘preventive conversations’ with the members of Mejlis, Crimean Tatar activists, and ordinary representatives of the Crimean Tatar people; • Searches and seizures in the Crimean Tatar cafes, private homes, Muslim schools (madrassas), places of worship (mosques), in the premises of Avdet newspaper, 26 Crimea Charity Fund, the mosque of the Islamic Cultural Centre , the editorial o7 ce of the Crimean Tatar newspaper Yani Dyunya27 , in the building of the Mejlis and houses the regional chairmen of the Mejlis by law enforcement agencies and the representatives of the so-called ‘Crimean self-defense’; • Court judgment on R nding the director of a madrassa guilty of possessing extremist materials delivered on August 27, 2014 in the Dzhankoy district of Crimea, sentencing of Mustafa Yagyaev, mosque Imam in Crimea, for two conditional years of prison term in July 2015 for openly opposing the Russia 28; occupation of the peninsula • Court judgment on the eviction of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Crimea Charity Fund and Avdet newspaper from their building, seizure of the organizations’ accounts and the ban on ‘exercising ownership powers with respect to the use and disposal of the property belonging to them’; 25 http://ru.krymr.com/content/news/27415938.html 26 http://obozrevatel.com/crime/18360-repressii-v-kryimu-okkupantyi-podbrosili-v-mechet-zapreschennuyu- literaturu.htm 27 http://investigator.org.ua/news/160650/ 28 http://ru.tsn.ua/bbc/imam-poluchil-dva-goda-uslovno-z-za-kritiki-anneksii-kryma-453631.html 49