(MENAFN- UkrinForm) Recently liberated deputy chairmen of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Akhtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov have not changed their intention to return to the occupied Crimea after a certain time.
They said this at a press conference at the Boryspil airport, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
"I have already said in some interviews that after a certain time I will go home," Umerov said.
This position was also supported by Akhtem Chiygoz: "We are not going to run away from anyone."
As reported, Akhtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov, who were convicted in the occupied Crimea, were handed over to Turkey on October 25 thanks to agreements reached during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Ukraine.
September 27, the Kremlin-controlled court in Crimea sentenced Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Ilmi Umerov to two years in a settlement colony, banning him from being engaged in public activity for two years. The criminal case against Umerov was instituted in 2016 under article 280.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (public calls for separatism).
September 11, the Russian court in the occupied Crimea found guilty Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Akhtem Chiygoz in organizing mass riots on February 26, 2014. Chiygoz was sentenced to 8 years in a general regime penal colony.
On October 25, the Russian side handed over Chiygoz and Umerov to Turkey. Today they returned to Ukraine.
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