PART 3 THE AFTERMATHS OF THE OCCUPATION: A POLITICAL REPRESSIONS SYSTEM • Compiling the liquidation lists of Crimean Tatars who should ‘either leave or disappear’; • Abduction of Crimean Tatars by unknown persons and the representatives of the so-called ‘Crimean self-defense’ (Islyam Dzheparov, Dzhevdet Islyamov, Eskender Apselyamov and others); • Forcible takeover on January 26, 2015 of the only Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR, earlier accused of extremism, on the charges that the channel ‘stubbornly disseminates the idea of possible repressions on ethnic and religious grounds, promotes anti-Russian sentiments in society, deliberately fuels distrust in the government and its actions among Crimean Tatars, and constitutes an indirect threat of extremist activity’. A logical outcome of the pressure on the Crimean Tatars is the preparation by the self-proclaimed Prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya of the ‘resolution on organization activity ban’ under Article 9 of the Federal Law On Combating Extremist Activity29 . The legal basis for such action was ‘the requests of the Crimean Tatar organizations 30 and movements’ in the annexed peninsula . According to the Russian legislation, the R nal decision should be taken by the occupation court. However, it is quite easy to predict this decision. The ban on the activity of the Mejlis on the basis of the Russian Law on Combating Extremist Activity entails a trail of negative eT ects, from absolute prohibition of the use of symbols of the Mejlis, which is actually the Crimean Tatar U ag, criminal lia- bility for facilitating the work of the organization and its R nancing, the prohibition of dissemination of the organization’s materials and to the prosecution of Mejlis members and their supporters. “The ban on Mejlis as an extremist organization, which, however, had not killed even a mosquito, means that all these people, all Crimean Tatars are under the threat of criminal prosecution, even in case of complete inactiv- ity, simply based on the fact of any relationship to the Mejlis. And what re- lationship – it will be decided by speci+ c enforcers: all conditions for mass repression for ethnic descent have been created in Crimea ...The gate of the invisible Crimean Tatar ghetto is slamming” – said the journalist Aider 31 Muzhdabaev 29 http://www.unian.ua/society/1265607-okupanti-vruchili-zastupniku-glavi-medjlisu-dokument-pro- pripinennya-diyalnosti-organizatsiji.html 30 http://15minut.org/article/dokument-na-osnovanii-kotorogo-zapretyat-deyatelnost-medzhlisa- foto-2016-02-15-18-33-18 31 http://fakty.ua/212722-muzhdabaev-ob-iske-pro-zapret-medzhlisa-vorota-nevidimogo-krymskotatarskogo- getto-zahlopyvayutsya 50