CrimeaSOS: detention of Crimean journalist Ediie Muslimova bears signs of an enforced disappearance 

The detention of the editor-in-chief of the Crimean Tatar children’s magazine “Armanchyk”, Ediie Muslimova, bears the signs of an enforced disappearance. This was reported by CrimeaSOS analyst Yevhenii Yaroshenko. 

 “Ediie Muslimova was held for a day and a half in the FSB building in Simferopol, and the occupation security service did not report her whereabouts. Her detention bears the signs of an enforced disappearance: deprivation of liberty against her will, involvement of state officials, at least indirectly, through tacit consent, refusal to acknowledge the fact of deprivation of liberty and to report her fate and whereabouts”, – Yevhenii Yaroshenko notes. 

Later it became known that Ediie was being held in the FSB building. After a lengthy interrogation, the editor was released.  

Editor of the magazine “Armanchyk” Ediie Muslimova disappeared on November 21 on her way to visit her 91-year-old mother, who has a group 1 disability and requires constant care. She was abducted by three people and taken to an unknown destination. Before this, Ediie had not been subject to criminal or administrative prosecution by the occupation’s special services. The children’s magazine “Armanchyk”, founded and headed by Ediie Muslimova, popularizes the Crimean Tatar language and culture. It has been published monthly in Crimea since 2011. 

It should be noted that, despite the fact that the russian federation is not a state party to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, as a party to an international armed conflict, the prohibition of enforced disappearances applies to it in accordance with customary international humanitarian law (rule 98) and a number of provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.