A protocol was drawn up against a 74-year-old historian from Crimea over an interview about the deportation of Crimeans in 1944.

Ten law enforcement officers came to the home of a 74-year-old Crimean historian to draw up a record over an interview about the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944. This was reported by “Crimean Solidarity.”

This morning, about ten law enforcement officers came to Enver Seitmemetov’s home in Bakhchisarai, a town in Crimea. The historian was taken to Simferopol, to the local “E” Centre. An administrative offence report was drawn up against him for equating the actions of the USSR with those of Nazi Germany. He is being held responsible for a video about the day of the deportation of Crimean Tatars on 18 May 1944.

In the video, Enver Seitmemetov said: “The international community, or in general those who today say rights are being violated, adopt laws on the United Nations, on human rights in 1948—in fact, these laws do not work. It was not just the Nuremberg trials that should have… I think after that there should have been another international court, which would have condemned these same victors.”

The court will consider the case against the historian on 2 December. Enver Seitmemetov is currently at liberty. Lawyer Edem Semedlyaev noted that this is the first case under Article 13.48 he has encountered in his practice.