A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 Crimean Tatar people. They are charged with public calls for activities against the terri- torial integrity of the Russian Federation (Article 280.1, part 2 of the RF Criminal Code). Later, three coordinators of the Committee on the Rights of the Crimean Tatar peo- ple, Eskender Bariev, Sinaver Kadyrov, and Akmedzhit Suleimanov, were arrested in Armyansk at the Russian border checkpoint. Kadyrov was sent to Armyansk city court, which on the same day ruled for expulsion of Sinaver Kadyrov from the Crimea for violation of Russian migration laws. It was later revealed that criminal proceedings were instituted in Crimea against all three coordinators. Now the coordinators are unable to enter Crimea for fear of criminal prosecution. Attempts to ban the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars In 2015, the representatives of the de-facto Crimean authorities repeatedly stated their intention to restrict the activity of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars. On February 15, 2016, the Crimean Prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya appealed to the “Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea” with an application ‘On the prohibition of the activ- ity of the public association in the manner and on grounds stipulated by Article FZ of 25.07.2002 No. 114-FZ ‘On Combating Extremist Activity’. N. Poklonskaya request- ed to declare the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars an extremist organization and ban its activity in the territory of the Russian Federation. In the case of recognition of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars an extremist organization, all of its members shall be at risk of persecution under a number of articles of the Criminal Code of the RF, which envisage the penalty in the form imprisonment for up to 8 years. 4.7. Displacement of the Civilian Population11 The actions aimed at changing the demographic composition of the occupied terri- tories for the R rst time have been declared an international crime in the Nuremberg trials in 1945. The Nazi war criminals were charged with ‘Germanization’ of the annexed territories, including Norway, part of France, Luxembourg, the Soviet Union, Denmark, Belgium and Holland, attempts to destroy the national identity of these territories, man- ifested in the forced deportation of the inhabitants of predominantly non-German na- 12 tionality and populating these territories with thousands of German colonists . 11 A more detailed study on the relocation of the civilian population of the Russian Federation to the occupied territory can be found in the thematic review Crimea Without Rules // http://crimeahumanrights.org/wp- content/uploads/2015/12/Crimea-Special_Edition.pdf 12 Trial of the Major War Criminals, p. 63. https://goo.gl/CRiTpO. 91

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