A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 Pictured: Motor highway in Armyansk, Mustafa Dzhemilev attempts to enter Crimea with the support of Crimean Tatars came to the town of Armyansk, the entry point to Crimea, to support their leader and express their protest against the ban. The meeting was attended by several thousand Crimean Tatars, after which Natalia Poklonskaya, the prosecutor of the Crimea, sent a resolution to the Investigation Committee and the FSS in order to ‘institute criminal proceedings against the persons responsible for the gathering, under Articles 212, 318, and 322 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation’, i.e., riots, acts of violence against a representative of authority, and illegal cross- ing of the state border. The prosecutor’s o7 ce and the court, which issued an order for the arrest of R ve people involved, did not even take into account the fact that on 3 May the border of the Russian Federation in the Crimea had not been equipped yet. The participants of the rally could not illegally cross the Russian border because the border crossings and the border itself appeared only in June. A week later, the protesters began to receive subpoenas, and subsequently about 200 people were fined in the amount of RUB 10,000 to 40,000 for admin- istrative articles on ‘unauthorized meeting’ (20.2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation) and disobedience to the police (19.3 of the Administra- tive Code). This was followed by a wake of raids on the homes of the participants of the peaceful assembly of May 3 under the pretext of searching for weapons, 75

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