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A Ukrainian serviceman stands guard in the city of Schastye in the Luhansk region late last month.
A Ukrainian serviceman stands guard in the city of Schastye in the Luhansk region late last month.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

Final News Summary For September 1, 2017

-- EDITOR'S NOTE: We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog as of September 2, 2017. Find it here.

-- Ukraine says it will introduce new border-crossing rules from next year, affecting citizens of “countries that pose risks for Ukraine.”

-- The Association Agreement strengthening ties between Ukraine and the European Union entered into force on September 1, marking an end to four years of political drama surrounding the accord.

-- The trial of Crimean journalist Mykola Semena will resume later this month after the first hearing in weeks produced little progress toward a resolution of the politically charged case.

*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv (GMT +3)

13:40 12.10.2016

More Crimean Tatars detained by Russia-installed security forces:

By the Crimean Desk of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service

Several Crimean Tatars have been detained in Ukraine's occupied Crimea region after Russian-installed security forces searched their houses in several villages.

Crimean Tatar activists wrote on Facebook that at least five Crimean Tatar men, all of them practicing Muslims, were detained on October 12.

Video footage posted by the activists showed security officials searching the homes of several Crimean Tatar families in the unidentified villages.

Several videos showed crowds of Tatar villagers protested the searches -- confronting the security officials and chanting prayers in Arabic.

The authorities did not issue any official statement about the searches.

The RIA Novosti news agency reported that "several leaders of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group were detained in the result of searches conducted in several settlements on the peninsula."

In September, a court in southern Russia sentenced four Crimean Tatars to lengthy prison terms after finding them guilty of being members of Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is a London-based Sunni political organization. It seeks to unite all Muslim countries into an Islamic caliphate but says its methods for reaching that goal are peaceful. Russia banned Hizb ut-Tahrir in 2003, designating it a "terrorist organization."

Russia has been heavily criticized by international rights groups and Western governments for its treatment of Crimea's indigenous Turkic-speaking people since Russia seized and illegally annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014.

Arrests, disappearances, and killings of Crimean Tatars have been reported.

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Crimean Tatars posted video on Facebook showing Russian police conducting house searches in Simferopol on October 12, in which five men were apparently arrested on terror charges. The incident comes amid ongoing reports of repression of the Crimean Tatar community.

Russians Detain Five On Terror Charges In Crimea
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