Eighteen Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians are illegally detained, unlawful searches, arrests, and hours-long interrogations continue in the occupied Crimea, Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Ukrainian MP (Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction) Refat Chubarov has said.

On his Facebook account, Chubarov posted a list of 18 names. He noted that "Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians, who remained faithful to their native land and people, have been illegally kept in torture chambers of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) for more than a year."