Russian security forces detain Crimean Tatar human rights activist Dzhepparov 

This was reported by the human rights organization Crimean Solidarity, according to Krym. Realii.

According to the activist's relatives, the security forces came at about 7 o'clock in the morning, took away everyone's phones and did not allow them to call a lawyer.

"The search ended half an hour ago. They took him away. We did not have time to call a lawyer, because they immediately took the phones. At the time of the search, his wife and 14-year-old daughter were in the house," said Dzhepparov's relative.

During the day, the detainee's lawyers could not find him in any institution on the peninsula. Eventually, they filed a report of a missing person.

The Representative Office of the President of Ukraine in the ARC condemned the detention of Dzhepparov and demanded his immediate liberation. In addition, the Office draws the attention of the law enforcement agencies and the prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol to the detention of the human rights activist.

Later it turned out that Dzhepparov was being held in one of the detention centers in Simferopol. He was detained on charges of disobedience to police, according to the Graty newspaper.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacted to Dzhepparov's arrest in his evening address

"Today, the occupiers broke into the house of Abdureshit Dzhepparov. He is one of the representatives of the Crimean Tatar national movement, a human rights activist, and a citizen of Ukraine. We do not know where he is now, what is happening to him. This is another example of Russian repression against the indigenous people of Crimea, against all our people. There are thousands and thousands of such examples during the aggression both in Crimea and in our other regions occupied by Russia."

• On April 14, Russia's Federal Security Service announced the detention of two "members" of a Crimean Tatar volunteer battalion in the temporarily occupied Crimea.

• In total, the invaders illegally detain 168 Crimean political prisoners and about 20 residents of southern Ukraine on the peninsula.