A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 In November 2015, Shaymardanov’s family lawyer Emil Kurbedinov reported that the Russian investigation has taken a number of investigative measures, but so far there has been no result. “There are no suspects. Almost all the Russian institutions were applied to; requests were sent to all the morgues and police stations. The video from the gas station, which depicts the car into which Shaymardanov could have gotten had been investigated”. From an interview with the lawyer of the Shaymardanov’s family Emil Kurbedinov for ‘Crimea.Realities’, November 4, 2015. Due to the inaction of the Ukrainian and Russian investigating authorities in re- spect to the disappearance of Timur Shaymardanov, the human rights activists R led a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against Ukraine and Rus- sia. According to Darya Sviridova, Lawyer of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, the complaint was R led as the Crimean law enforcement o7 cials refused to give the aT ected party the case materials, and the Ukrainian law enforcement o7 cers did not conduct any investigation. At the same time the case on the disappearance of Seyran Zinedinov was suspend- ed by the Russian investigative authorities. The representative of the victim, the Crimean lawyer Alexander Lesovoy said that he did not try to appeal against the suspension of the investigation, since Zinedinov’s relative have discontinued con- tact with him. With regard to information about the disappearance of Leonid Korzh, he was found, and, according to Larisa Shaymardanova, he was not abducted. Islyam Dzhepparov, Dzhevdet Islyamov On September 27, 2014, the 18-year-old Islyam Dzhepparov and his 23-year-old cousin Dzhevdet Islyamov were kidnapped in the village of Sara-Su near Belogorsk. The young men were last seen on the road in the evening, not far from the shop ‘Kysmet’ (40th km of the Simferopol – Kerch highway): unknown people in black uni- forms R rst searched the guys, and then pushed them in a blue Volkswagen Trans- porter minibus with tinted glasses (registration number 755, region 82) and left in the direction of Feodosia. Dzhepparov’s father Abdurashid immediately reported to the police about kidnap- ping of the son, but, according to him, law enforcement authorities were negligent in searching the young people. 69

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