A lawyer for Mustafa Jemilev, ex-chairman of Crimean Tatar Mejlis, has filed a complaint with the court about the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which he believes has banned his client from entering Crimea.

"We have filed a complaint about the Federal Security Service with the Moscow Meshchansky Court, we believe they are preventing Jemilev from entering Crimea," lawyer Mark Feygin told reporters on Wednesday.

He said there is an order from the Federal Security Service which talks about an entry ban. "We previously filed a complaint about the Federal Migration Service, which had banned Jemilev from entering, but they refused to provide appropriate documents on the ban to us. We believe the ban came from the Federal Security Service, and we want these documents to be provided to us in court," Feygin said.

Jemilev was denied entry into Russia until 2019, when he tried to enter Crimea at a checkpoint in 2014. In February 2015, the Moscow Basmanny Court upheld the Federal Migration Service's ban on Jemilev's entry into Crimea. Feygin, a lawyer for Jemilev, said in court, that his client had not been provided with an official decision made by the Federal Migration Service on the entry ban. Federal Migration Service asked for the claim to be declined.