PART 4 A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA tar representatives, was meeting in Armyansk Mustafa Dzhemilev, the Mejlis leader. The police seized all computer equipment including phones and memory card from the car camera. After the search, Bogutskaya was transferred to the Extremism Combating Center, and was kept without a legal counsel for about 30 minutes. After the counsel ar- rived, Bogutskaya was released without charges. According to Bogutskaya, during her stay at the Extremism Combating Center she was accused of inciting ethnic hostility and provoking ethnic conU icts via materials she disseminated in the Internet. She said the o7 cer investigating the Armyansk incident questioned her as a witness. After interrogation, fearing of pressure and prosecution by FSB, Bogutskaya was forced to leave the Crimea. ‘I left at night. I supposed that, maybe, in the morning they would come again to shoot my dog under the pretence of getting some signatures from me. I decided that writing articles on the outside is better than not writing them behind the bars.’ From Yelizaveta Bogutskaya’s interview to the Center for Journalist In- vestigations, September 9, 2014 Karman Art Center Karman Art Center is a one-of-a-kind community center for modern culture, art, and informal education in the Crimea. In summer 2014, FSB o7 cers started subpoenaing the managers of Karman Art Center for ‘preventative conversa- tions’. They were suspected of a7 lia- tion with the so-called ‘group of Oleg Sentsov, a well-known Ukrainian R lm director’, who is accused of creating a terrorist organization and is currently under investigation in Moscow. Galina Dzhikayeva, the art center man- ager, was subpoenaed for interroga- tion, where she was pressured to testi- 96

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