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Crimea Chief Prosecutor Opposes US Decision on Mejlis Crimean Group

© Press Service of the Republic of Crimea / Go to the mediabankProsecutor of the Republic of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya at the function to celebrate Russian Prosecutor General's Office Workers' Day in Simferopol
Prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya at the function to celebrate Russian Prosecutor General's Office Workers' Day in Simferopol - Sputnik International
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Crimean Attorney General Natalia Poklonskaya on Friday turned down a demand by the US State Department to lift restrictions on a Crimean Tatar organization, designated as "extremist" in Russia.

Crimean Tatars speak to each other after the prayer in a mosque marking the Eid al-Adha, celebrated by Muslims worldwide, in Bakhchisarai, Crimea - Sputnik International
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Moscow 'Not Interested' in US Opinion on Crimean Tatar Organization
SIMFEROPOL (Sputnik) — The Russian Justice Ministry suspended Mejlis, a minority ethnic Tatar organization, after it was accused of links to terror groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir and Turkey’s neo-nazi Gray Wolves. Washington said the decision contravened basic democratic principle. 

"If the US State Department thinks it is important to keep an organization like Crimean Tatars’ Mejlis and they deem its activities 'democratic' they are free to create such an organization at home," Poklonskaya told RIA Novosti.

Crimea rejoined Russia after a referendum in March 2014, in which 96 percent of people in the region backed cessation from Ukraine. The United States imposed a range of individual and sectoral sanctions on Russia and its officials in the wake of the vote, including on Poklonskaya.

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