THE AFTERMATHS OF THE OCCUPATION: A POLITICAL REPRESSIONS SYSTEM PART 3 3.4. Prosecution of Non-Violent Exercise of the Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion, Freedom of Expression and Information, Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association and Other Rights and Liberties “The personnel of the ATR TV channel lawfully working in Crimea [...] became persona non-grata not only for the o4 cial authorities but also for “peers”. Recently, the two Crimean Tatar cultural institutions warned us about the impossibility of + lming. They referred to a letter from the Ministry of Inter- nal Policy and Information of the RC, where it was recommended not to al- low the journalists enter their territory [...] And can we breathe at home? If it goes on, we will be denied the medical care in outpatient clinics, not sold the goods in grocery stores, asked out of public transport, obliged to wear the Yellow star and tattooed with the camp number on our hands”. Deputy Director General of ATR TV channel Lily Bujurova. Steering the course to the rapid establishment of an authoritarian regime, the self-proclaimed Crimean authorities began regarding the basic fundamental rights and freedoms as a threat to the consolidation and the existence of the occupation regime. This puts in danger anyone nonviolently exercising the inalienable and in- violable human rights, such as: • Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion (the pogrom at the church of the Kyiv Patriarchate in the village of Perevalnoye in Simferopol district on July 1, 2014, followed by a refusal by the police to register a crime incident report, the kidnapping of father Bogdan Kostetsky in Yalta on September 2, 2014; a statement, in January 2016, of the Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate Clement about the dispossession by occupation authorities of premises due to the alleged R nancial debt, the case of the Crimean Muslims, according to which Nuri Primov, Ruslan Zeytullaev, Ferat Sayfullaev, Rustem Vaitov, Emir-Usein Kyky, Enver Bekirov, Muslim Aliyev and Vadim Siruk were detained); • Freedom of expression (the seizure of the editorial o7 ce of the Center for Investigative Journalism by the representatives of the so-called ‘Crimean self- defense’ in June 2014 with the requirement to present the registration documents and the lease contract; soon after the incident, the landlord demanded the termination of the lease contract; persecution of journalists of the Crimean Tatar 45