PART 4 A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA A criminal case under the ar- ticle ‘kidnapping committed by a group of persons with prior intention,’ was institut- ed after Dzhepparov and Is- lyamov’s disappearance. Another disappearance of the Crimean Tatars stirred up the public. A few days after the incident, near the Abdureshit Dzhepparov’s house in Sary-Su of Be- logorsk district a rally was held. On the same day, the Head of Crimea Sergey Aksenov met with Abdureshit Dzhepparov and the people that accompanied him. According to the activist, the authorities assured that “the case would be brought to an end”. Two days later, Aksenov arrived at Belogorsk to communicate with the resentful public. Follow- ing the meeting, it was decided to establish the Crimean Human Rights Contact Group, which, in addition to Dzhepparov, included lawyers, social activists and relatives of the missing people. More than a year passed since then, however, neither Russian nor Ukrainian law enforcement agencies achieved any results in the search for the missing persons. In addition, according to Abdurashid Dzhepparov, the law enforcement o7 cials, while investigating the cases, put pressure on the victims and witnesses. “They held us until after midnight, interrogated about Islam, its various branches, radicalism – as if I understood anything in it. I know that the investigators need to collect information, but they should understand me as a father – after all, my son is missing!” From an interview with the father of Islyam Dzhepparov Abdurashid for Deutsche Welle, November 2014. According to Deutsche Welle, Dzhepparov’s eldest son Abdullah disappeared in Syria in 2012. Perhaps he took part in military operations for the opposition togeth- er with Dzhevdet Islyamov there. Later, Dzhevdet came back home, but Abdullah did not. The investigating authorities of the Crimea are checking the facts of Dzhevdet Islyamov’s participation in the military operations on the side of the opposition in 70