PART 3 THE AFTERMATHS OF THE OCCUPATION: A POLITICAL REPRESSIONS SYSTEM TV channel ATR, the case of Vladimir Balukh, who was sentenced to 320 hours of compulsory work for planting the Ukrainian U ag on the roof his house in 17 February 2016 ); • Freedom of peaceful assembly (administrative prosecution of doctor Sergey Dub for taking part in a peaceful demonstration on the occasion of the Ukrainian National Flag Day on August 23, 2014, administrative prosecution of the Crimean Tatars Saniye Ametova and Yunus Nemetullaev for organization of U owers laying on May 18, 201518, members of the Ukrainian Cultural Centre Veldar Shukurdzhiev and Leonid Kuzmin for the events of March 9, 2015 and October 14, 2015); • Freedom of association (criminal prosecution of the coordinator of the Committee on the Rights of the Crimean Tatar People for operating ‘an unregistered organization’, R led complaint of the so-called Crimean Prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya on the recognition of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars an 19 extremist organization , oppression in December 2015 of one of the oldest non-governmental organizations the League of Crimean Tatar Women, led by SaR nar, the wife of the leader of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev in 20 December 2015 ). For the unlawful restriction of the fundamental rights and freedoms, the occupa- tion authorities use the repressive legislation of the Russian Federation. At the same time, while in Russia, as a rule, this legislation is used selectively against certain in- dividuals, the Crimean authorities use a deliberate policy of the total prohibition to the individuals disloyal to the authorities of the non-violent exercise of the freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, freedom of expression and information, free- dom of peaceful assembly and association, and of other rights and liberties. In this way, the characteristic of the ‘February 26th case’ under which several people were arrested, including the Mejlis Deputy Chairman Akhtem Chiygoz, on allega- tions of organizing riots and participating in them (a peaceful assembly that took place on February 26, 2014) by the Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Hu- man Rights Valeriya Lutkovska is also applicable to the general situation with ensur- ing the fundamental human rights and freedoms in Crimea: “This is a legal surrealism, I cannot + nd another name for it, because this man had the right to peaceful assembly on the Ukrainian territory 17 http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/71522.html 18 http://avdet.org/node/12617 19 http://investigator.org.ua/news/174184/ 20 http://www.ukrinform.ru/rubric-regions/1937220-okkupantyi-vyidvoryayut-iz-oR sa-ligu-kryimskotatarskih- jenschin.html 46