Tuesday 23 May 2023 @ 15:00 -16:30 CET

On Tuesday, ECR Foreign Affairs Coordinator Anna Fotyga will host a conference dedicated to drawing attention to the situation of Crimean Tatars in Crimea and the increased persecution, discrimination and stigmatisation that they face since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The conference brings together human rights experts, academics, Ukrainian officials and ethnic Crimean Tatars to discuss the serious human rights violations committed by the occupying forces against the indigenous people of Crimea. The event will take place from 15:00 - 16:30 in room ASP 1H1 and will be webstreamed.

Links to the live stream can be found here: English or Ukrainian

List of speakers:

Host: Anna Fotyga MEP

• Emine Dzhaparova, First Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

• Refat Chubarov, Chairman of Medjlis of the Crimean Tatar people

• Tamila Tasheva, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

• Eamon Gilmore, EU Special Representative for Human Rights

• Vsevolod Chentsov, Ambassador of Ukraine to the European Union

• Tetiana Pechonchyk, Head of Human Rights Centre ZMINA

• Iryna Siedova, Expert of Crimean Human Rights Group

• Eskender Bariev, Member of the Medjlis of the Crimean Tatar people and Head of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center

• Prof. Andrew Wilson, University College London, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

• Aziz Umerov, Crimean Tatar, brother of the political prisoner Leniie Umerova

• Bekir Mamut, Editor of newspaper Qirim