MENU
Documenting
war crimes in Ukraine

The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) global initiative was set up in response to the all-out war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022.

Similar articles

Crimean Field Mission activists detained on Russian borderRussia’s small ethnic group reps stopped from attending UN conferenceMore harassment of a member of the Crimean Tatar MejlisRussia uses Siberia for maximum vengeance against imprisoned Crimean Tatar journalist Remzi Bekirov and his family Your families will suffer too: No limits to Russia’s persecution of Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians Crimean Tatar journalist and activists face huge sentences in Russia’s retaliation for humiliating attack by Ukraine Russian justice: murderers pardoned for killing Ukrainians, Crimean Tatas sentenced to 17 years for defending political prisoners Fake ‘secret witness’ exposed in Russia’s politically timed persecution of Crimean Solidarity journalist and other Crimean TatarsRussia begins trial of Crimean Tatars arrested after humiliating attack by Ukraine 15 years in Russian captivity for helping Crimean Solidarity human rights movementCrimean Tatar journalist sent to Siberia for 19 years for reporting on Russian repression in occupied Crimea Crimean Tatar prisoner of conscience and victim of FSB torture urgently hospitalized in Russia Russia sentences four Crimean Tatar civic activists to 53 years for ‘dissident views’ Russian court helps prosecution fake evidence in ‘trial’ of Crimean Tatar civic activist Record 'low sentence' exposes brutal methods behind Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea Russia sentences Crimean Tatar journalist and human rights activists to 19 years for exposing its repression in occupied Crimea Russia unleashes new wave of terror and arrests of Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea Two effective death sentences in Russia’s most savage attack on Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists Russia 'takes revenge’ for humiliating attack on Crimea military base by new mass arrests of Crimean Tatars Russian invaders raid Kherson oblast home of member of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis and former political prisoner

Attack on Crimean Tatar scholar Nadir Bekir

19.09.2014   

The attack on Nadir Bekir and what was taken suggest that his assailants were no common thieves. The head of the Fund for Research and Support of the Indigenous Peoples of the Crimea was attacked on Friday by four masked men.  Bekir explains on his facebook page that he trying to catch the train to Kyiv from where he was due to fly to New York.  He asked a taxi driver to take him to Dzhankoj, quite some distance away.  .  On the road from Simferopol to Dzhankoj a minvan blocked their way and four men in balaclava’s pulled him out of the car.  It is interesting that from the outset he assumed they were linked with the police and demanded that they identify themselves. 

They threw him to the ground, hitting him a couple of times, although they had clearly not stopped him to beat him up.  Bekir says that they rummaged through his pockets and one said “correct” when he opened Bekir’s passport.  The men also removed his mobile telephone.

After the men left, he got the taxi driver to take him to a nearby village where he called the police.  The latter came, took fingerprints etc, but insist on assuming – or pretending to assume – that the men were carrying out an ordinary robbery. 

Bekir himself is not convinced.  He was forced to return to Simferopol instead of travelling to New York for a UN General Assembly special session on indigenous peoples.  He says that this alone convinces him that the aim of the attack was to prevent him from attending the conference.  He asserts that his position is not to the liking of the present regime, just as it was not liked by the previous governments.  He adds however that it is also not liked by others, and it is an open question who was behind the attack. 

 Share this