PART 4 A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA Edem Asanov On September 29, 2014, the 25-year-old Edem Asanov disappeared on his way to work from Saki to Yevpato- ria. According to Asanov’s sister Feride, he left his house in Saki at 8:30 to catch the bus to Yevpatoria, where he worked as a rescuer at a spa resort. He was found hung up in an abandoned holiday center in Yevpatoria on October 6. There was a suicide note near Asanov’s body saying that he had a disease that allegedly made him commit suicide. The relatives of the dead R rst said that Asanov could not commit a suicide, but then urged journalists not to look for political impli- cations of his death. Right after Asanov’s disappearance, it became known that a person with the same surname appeared in the case of ‘Oleg Sentsov’s group’ which was allegedly pre- paring acts of terrorism on the peninsula. It turned out later that it was Asanov’s namesake with a diT erent patronymic. ‘There is a version that Asanov had the same surname as the person in Sentsov’s case, and, allegedly, he was kidnapped incidentally. But when they (kidnappers) found out that it was a diR erent person, they organized a suicide to hide the crime. The relatives behave very strangely in this story. If we say that it was a suicide and that everything was transparent why were not we provided a death certi+ cate? It gives rise to suspicion.’ From the interview of the Vice-Chairman of the Crimean Field Mission for Human Rights Olga Skripnik to the GORDON, February 2015. The Crimean Field Mission noted that the relatives set Asanov’s funeral for an earlier date so there was no pos- sibility to establish traces of violence on his body. Eskender Apselyamov Eskender Apselyamov, 23, went missing on October 3, 2014, in Simferopol. Around 17.30 he went out from the rented apartment in Trubachenko street in Simferopol to work in a bakery (a 15-minute walk from home), but never turned up at work. He was last seen in a shop near 72