PART 4 A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA Actions of the Ukrainian authorities with regard to the judges in the occupied territories of Crimea In August 2014, a meeting of the Higher Judges’ Qual- ifications Board of Ukraine (hereinafter HJQB) took place, which addressed the issue of the transfer of a number of Crimean judges to the main- land Ukraine (of 479 Crime- an judges the HJQB was ad- 35 dressed by 52 judges ). With- in March 18, 2014 – March 4, 2015 based on the Decree of the President of Ukraine ‘On the transfer of judges’, 30 Crimean judges were trans- ferred to courts in mainland Ukraine. Also the Higher Judges’ Quali- R cations Board of Ukraine initi- ated the entering into the Uni- R ed Register of pre-trial investi- gations the data regarding the Crimean judges which did not R le an application for a transfer to another court in the territo- ry of Ukraine (on the grounds of a criminal oT ense under Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). In the autumn of 2015, the Supreme Council of Justice of Ukraine suspended the consid- eration of a number of applications of Crimean judges on the voluntary resigna- tion from o7 ce, and decided to apply to the HJQB of Ukraine with applications for 36 checking the activities of these judges . 35 http://pravo.ua/news.php?id=43235 36 http://zib.com.ua/ua/119694-vischa_rada_yusticii_vnese_podannya_pro_zvilnennya_24_suddiv.html 128