Chairman of Mejlis of Crimean Tatar People Refat Chubarov called trials over Crimean Tatars Akhtem Chyihoz, Ali Asanova and Mustafa Dehermendzhi as "a kangaroo court" and urged international and human rights organizations, along with the governments of UN member states to apply efforts to protect human rights in temporarily occupied Crimea by Russia.

"On the day when the shameful Russian kangaroo trials launched against courageous sons of Crimean Tatar people – native people of Crimea, we call international organizations and human rights organizations, governments of the UN member states to apply necessary efforts to stop despotism of Russian occupants and to defend human rights in the temporarily occupied Crimea by Russia," he wrote on his Facebook page on Monday.

According to Chubarov, "kangaroo trials by the Russian occupants" over Deputy Chairman of Mejlis of Crimean Tatars Akhtem Chyihoz started in Simferopol on December 28.

"The cynicism of another committed crime against human rights in Crimea lies in the unhindered punishment of citizens of Ukraine – Crimean Tatars, who defended their homeland and the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine," he said.

"The trials over Akhtem Chyihoz, Ali Asanov and Mustafa Dehermendzhi, who performed their constitutional duty to protect their country through peaceful and non-violent ways is a flagrant violation of international law, the UN Charter, cynical challenge to the international community and the rejection of lawfulness by the Russian Federation," he added.

He also said that "under the criminal logic of Russian justice the acts which Chyihoz, Asanov and Dehermendzhi are accused of can equally be applied to the leaders and heads of 100 world countries – UN members, who supported territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, including Crimea and condemned Russia's actions in Crimea."

"Life and health of Akhtem Chyihoz, Ali Asanov, Mustafa Dehermendzhi, as well as of other Crimean political prisoners – Hennadiy Afanasyev, Rustem Vaitov, Ruslan Zeitullaiev, Yuriy Ilchenko, Oleksandr Kolchenko, Oleksandr Kostenko, Nuri Prymov, Ferati Saifullayeva, Oleh Sentsov, Oleksiy Chyrniy – are under the threat," said Chubarov.

Chubarov reminded that Chyihoz, Asanov and Dehermendzhi together with more than ten thousand citizens of Ukraine – Crimean Tatars and Crimean residents of other nationalities – were participants of a peaceful rally on February 26, 2014 near the parliament of Crimea.

It should be recalled that Russian investigators accused activists of being involved in 'riots' on February 26, 2014, which arose near the Crimean parliament during the meetings, one carried by the supporters of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, another – by the activists of the Russian Unity Party.