A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 his work where he bought cigarettes. Apselyamov’s phone turned on for 15–20 minutes in the evening on the day of his disappearance, but he discarded all calls. Apselyamov’s relatives went to all hospitals, police stations, and mortuaries of Sim- feropol after his disappearance, but he could not be found anywhere. According to the relatives of the Crimean Tatar, he was fond of football and did not participate in the political life of the peninsula at all. There is still no information on the missing Apselyamov on the web site of the Crimean Investigation Committee. Eskender’s mother Aishe Apselyamova said that a criminal case for disappearance of her son was launched (she does not know un- der which article), and the parents periodically meet the investigator. ‘I call him by phone and ask whether there is any news. Unfortunately, there is no news.’ From an interview with Eskender’s mother, Aishe Apselyamova, for the GORDON, February 2015. Fedor Kostenko On March 4, 2015, friends and family lost touch with Fedor Kostenko, father of Euro- maidan activist Alexander Kostenko arrested in Crimea. Before his disappearance he had arrived in Kyiv to talk to the press about the arrest of his son but was forced to rush back to Crimea after his second son phoned him to say that the FSS had searched their apartment once again. On March 3, he phoned and said that he entered Crimea, and then the contact with him was lost. To date, his whereabouts remain unknown. According to the Crimean Field Mission, Fedor Kostenko’s wife R led an application to the police about his disappearance. The document also states that on March 2 and 3 “near our apartment there were suspicious people, who obviously watched the entrance and the apartment at the door and from the car”. The application states that the presence of such “observers” can be conR rmed by the neighbors. Fedor Kostenko’s son Alexander, a former Crimean policeman, has been charged with deliberate inU iction of bodily harm on the grounds of ideological hatred, in January 2014 on the Maidan in Kyiv, against the R ghters of Berkut riot police unit sent to Kyiv from Crimea (par. b of Part 2 of Art. 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). He was beaten and tortured with electric current, and then forced to write a confession. Kostenko was sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in 73