During this period, several civiс activists who openly protested against Russia's actions in Crimea, including Reshat Ametov, Andrey Shchekun, Anatoly Kovalsky, Yuriy Gruzinov, Yaroslav Pilunskiy, Alexey Gritsenko, Sergey Suprun, Natalia Luk'yanchenko and others, were kidnapped. Many of them were tortured while Reshat Ametov was brutally murdered.