PART 4 A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA 22, 2014. On May 26, Timur Shaymardanov himself did not come home, and none of his relatives or friends has seen him since then. He left the house in the morn- ing. At dinnertime, Timur was to pick up the child from school, but did not do so and the contact with him had been lost since then. Seyran Zinedinov was one of the coordinators in the search for the missing activists. On May 30 he met Shaymardanov’s wife and told her that he had reason to believe that both activists had been abducted by the ‘Crimean self-defense’. After this meet- ing Seyran Zinedine did not return home. According to Seyran Zinedinov’s relatives, there is a recording from the video sur- veillance camera at the gas station where the activist was last seen before the ab- duction. The recording shows a car stopping near the R lling station and near the activist (the distance does not allow telling the number and the make of the vehi- cle), and the man was forced into the car. The relatives of the abducted person have received no information about him or the results of the investigation since they R led their application to the police. After Seyran’s disappearance his relatives found out from the mobile operator the location of his phone, which was turned on several times after his disap- pearance. His mobile phone was connected to the network from the recreation and retreat center Dolphin, which is near Evpatoriya. When this became known, Zinedinov’s friends tried to get there, but they were not allowed inside by the guards. Shaymardanov’s phones were turned on several times after his disappearance; his family also tried to R nd out from the operator the exact location where they got on- line. However, they got no reply. On July 31, 2014, the Prosecutor’s O7 ce of the Republic of Crimea reported, in re- sponse to the request of the Crimean Field Mission on Human Rights, that criminal cases for murder were launched on the facts of the disappearance of Zinedinov and Shaymardanov. During the 113th session of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva in March 2015 the Russian delegation stated that the investigation in Crimea was consid- ering several versions in the cases of disappearances of Timur Shaymardanov and Seyran Zinedinov, the disappearance due to their commercial activities or voluntary departure from Crimea. In both cases, the investigation does not consider the ver- sions of the violent nature of their disappearance and involvement of the ‘Crimean self-defense’, which was declared by the witnesses. In this regard, the eT ectiveness of investigation of these abductions raises doubts. 68