The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested six Ukrainian Muslims, five of them Crimean Tatars, after armed searches of seven homes in the early morning of February 17. The FSB and heavily armed Rosgvardia officers were clearly interested only in books, and in at least one case, claimed to find the so-called prohibited literature which they pulled from their own bag. Russia has again targeted civic activists, some of whom have already faced administrative prosecution for peaceful pickets in solidarity with Russia’s ever-mounting number of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners.
FSB conducts armed searches for ‘prohibited books’ and arrests six Ukrainians in Russian-occupied Crimea
By Ukrainian Weekly Editor3 Mins Read