PART 4 A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA prison. Later, the Supreme Court of Crimea reduced the term of imprisonment to 3 years and 11 months. The relatives of the missing person and Kostenko’s lawyer believe that the disap- pearance of the detainee’s father may be related to the pressure upon his son who had previously reported regular beatings, threats, and abuse. 4.3. Criminal Prosecutions for Political Reasons, Unlawful Arrests and Searches The Russian laws on extremism, and terrorism are used in Crimea for the purposes of exercising pressure on the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar activists. Using Russian law as a means of protection for themselves, the FSS, prosecutors, and the police conducted more than a hundred illegal searches in the homes of the Crimean Ta- tars, Euromaidan activists, and journalists, as well as in mosques, madrassah, tem- ples, editorial o7 cers of TV channels and print media. The ‘Crimean self-defense’ often takes part in such searches, usually by surrounding the house under search and not allowing in any lawyers, as well as by taking away personal belongings. A more severe manifestation is unreasonable arrests and imprisonments; the Crimea now has political prisoners. Criminal proceedings have been initiated even in respect of the events that had occurred before the establishment of Russian con- trol over the Crimea or for the events that had taken place in Kyiv. ‘The Case of May, 3’ The charge: The use of violence endangering the lives or health of the persons against a representative of authorities (part 2, Art. 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), punishment: Imprisonment of up to ten years, illegal crossing the state border of the Russian Federation (Art. 322 of the Criminal Code), punish- ment: From a R ne to imprisonment for up to six years. The arrested persons: On October 16, 2014, Musa Apkerimov was arrested, followed by Rustam Abdurakhmanov on October 17, 2014, Tahir Smedlyaev on October 22, 2014, Edem Ebulisov on November 25, 2014, Edem Osmanov on January 20, 2015. Mustafa Dzhemilev, a well-known ativist and the leader of the Crimean Tatar Peo- ple was banned entry to Crimea on Marh 3, 2014. In response, the Crimean Tatars 74