A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 fy against Sentsov. Other members of the art center who personally knew Sentsov have also got under pressure under pressure. Due to intimidation from FSB o7 cers, Galina Dzhikayeva had to leave the Crimea. ‘I had been + ghting Yanukovich’s government in every way I could, both as a journalist and an artist. I saw what was happening in Russia, I watched the monster grow. When the monster came to the Crimea, I had no illu- sions about a happy life and free creativity.’ Galina Dzhikayeva, manager, Karman Art Center, ‘Svoboda’ (Freedom) Radio Station interview, August 9, 2014 These actions of the FSB o7 cers point to possible falsiR cation of the criminal case materials prepared by the Russian Federal Security Service in Crimea. FalsiR cation of the criminal case materials points at Sentsov’s innocence and his being deprived of a right to fair trial. Ukrainian Cultural Center The use of the Ukrainian symbols has been systematically restricted. Thus, on May 15, 2015, the Crimean Prosecutor’s O7 ce warned Leonid Kuzmin, the activist of the Ukrainian Cultural Centre on the inadmissibility of the use of Ukrainian symbols during mourning events on May 18, the Day of Commemoration of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Another activist of the Center, Veldar Shukurdzhiev, the pros- ecution o7 cers and representatives of the Centre on Combating Extremism warned about the inadmissibility of the use of Ukrainian symbols during the Crimean Tatar events on May 16 and 18. On May 21, 2015, the Ukrainian activists (Veldar Shukurdzhiev, Leonid Kuzmin, Mikhail Batrak, Sergey Dub) traveled and photographed activities in diT erent cit- ies on the Vyshyvanka Day (Ukrainian national embroidered clothes). Their car was stopped by the tra7 c police and the police on the Simferopol-Armyansk highway. The car was searched; no prohibited items and materials have been found. The activ- ists had their IDs with them. However, despite this, they were arrested and convoyed to the police station in Armyansk. After a few hours they were released, the proto- col of arrest stated identity veriR cation as the reason for bringing them to the police station; however, the activists showed their IDs when the car was being searched. On August 11, 2015, in the evening, the activists Veldar Shukurdzhiev and Irina Kopy- lova, took pictures with a Ukrainian U ag at one of the squares in Simferopol, near the monument to Lenin. They were arrested by the police. The protocol was drawn up on violation of the order of holding the meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets. However, the taking of pictures by two people in its essence is not a rally, 97