Occupants in Crimea illegally searched the houses of Crimean Tatars – activist Rustem Mustafayev and imam Ismail Yurdamov

In Crimea, the occupiers continue to persecute Ukrainian citizens, this time they conducted two illegal searches in the homes of Crimean Tatars. 

In Krynychki village Islamteretsky district, the occupiers broke into the house of activist Rustem Mustafayev at six in the morning. The occupation forces handed Mustafayev an illegal search warrant for his home on the grounds of alleged possession of prohibited literature, weapons, and explosives. Rustem Mustafayev refused to sign any documents. 

The occupants first illegally searched Mustafayev’s house, and then – his phones and laptops. After that, the activist’s book ‘Gardens of the Righteous’ (a collection of Imam An-Nawawi’s hadiths on noble morality) was seized from him. After the illegal search, Mustafayev was not detained. 

Let us remind you that Rustem Mustafayev often visits courts in politically motivated cases, participates in collective duas, appeals on behalf of the elders in defense of illegally arrested Crimean Tatars. 

The occupiers also illegally searched the house of imam Ismail Yurdamov, who lives in the village of Pryvitne, Islamteretsky district. The occupation forces broke into Yurdamov’s house at about six in the morning, the illegal search lasted about an hour, after which the occupiers took the imam to the village mosque. The mosque was also searched, and everything was examined. Then they transferred him to another car and drove off in the direction of Islyam-Terek. Currently, Yurdamov is illegally detained by the occupiers and is being held in the department of the occupation law enforcement agencies in the city of Islyam-Terek.