Occupiers in Crimea have once again fined the founder and editor-in-chief of the Crimean Tatar newspaper "Kırım."

The occupiers in Crimea have once again fined the founder and editor-in-chief of the Crimean Tatar newspaper “Kırım” – Seyran İbrahimov and Bekir Mamutov – this time for an article in the Crimean Tatar language about Soviet dissident and human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva.

This is reported by the publication “Ґрати”.

The operatives of the occupying Center for Countering Extremism, so-called Center “E”, submitted screenshots from the editorial website to Roskomnadzor and succeeded in initiating two new administrative cases against its founder and editor-in-chief. They were fined 44,000 rubles.

According to the police and Roskomnadzor, the mentioned article contained information from the publications “Voice of America” and “Radio Free Europe” without indicating their status as “foreign agents”.

Recall that in early June 2024, the illegal “Kyiv District Court” of occupied Simferopol recognized the Crimean Tatar newspaper “Kırım” guilty of “discrediting” the armed forces of the Russian Federation. The occupiers initiated an administrative case due to a publication about partial mobilization in Crimea in September 2022, when a large number of Crimean Tatars were conscripted into the Russian army.

As is known, at the end of May this year, two protocols were drawn up against the newspaper – for discrediting the armed forces of Russia and for disseminating deliberately false information under the guise of reliable information. In one of the publications, according to the “Center for Countering Extremism”, Bekir Mamutov “spread information aimed at discrediting the use of the RF Armed Forces for the protection of the interests of the RF and its citizens, maintaining international peace and security within the framework of demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine”.

Thus, the newspaper “expressed dissent regarding the conduct of the “SVO”, believes operative Korenevsky, and committed an offense under part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.

On June 7, the “court” fined the editorial office 300,000 rubles under the protocol for “discrediting” the RF Armed Forces.

In July, the “Kyiv District Court of Simferopol” did not satisfy the appeal of the newspaper “Kırım” and upheld the fine of 300,000 rubles for discrediting the RF Armed Forces: the basis for the protocol was a publication on the newspaper's website.

The second protocol, regarding misinformation, was drawn up for an article that quoted a passage from a UN report on the humanitarian situation in Crimea. In particular, regarding unjustified detentions and beatings of people. The article also included data on the torture of a Crimean Tatar in Kherson and the harsh conditions of Pretrial Detention Center No. 2 in Simferopol.

On May 17, police arrived with a search warrant for the 68-year-old editor-in-chief of the newspaper Bekir Mamutov and its 59-year-old founder Seyran İbrahimov. Two protocols were drawn up against Mamutov – for discrediting the Russian army and for disseminating unreliable information under the guise of reliable information based on publications on the website of the newspaper “Kırım”.

Earlier, ZMINA reported that the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, responded to the decision of the occupying court of Crimea regarding the fine imposed on the editor of the independent Crimean Tatar newspaper “Kırım”, Bekir Mamutov, calling it a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.