Lenora Dyulber’s Arrest Marks a Dark Chapter in Russia’s Persecution of Crimean Tatars

The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) expressed deep concern following the arrest of Crimean Tatar political scientist and journalist Lenora Dyulber by Russian law enforcement, the group said on December 4.

Russian officers raided Dyulber’s home in Sudak, Crimea, and reportedly took her to Simferopol for interrogation by the Federal Security Service (FSB).

Dyulber’s arrest marks a troubling escalation in Russia’s repression of the Crimean Tatars, a community that has faced systematic persecution since Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. According to human rights activists, Dyulber’s arrest is part of a pattern of harassment against Crimean Tatar intellectuals and journalists by Russian authorities.

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Sarah Reinke, head of human rights at GfbV, called for international action to halt these violations, appealing for both political pressure and concrete measures to protect Crimean Tatars. The GfbV has urged intervention from German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul and the UN Special Rapporteur on Russia, Mariana Katzarova, to address these human rights abuses.

Previously, it was reported that Russian occupation forces in Crimea detained four Crimean Tatar women and transferred them to Simferopol, to the so-called “FSB Directorate for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol,” according to Refat Chubarov, head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People.

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