Dzhemilev Mustafa Abdulcemil

Dzhemilev Mustafa Abdulcemil

Genus. in 1943 in the village of Ai-Serez, Sudak district, Crimean ASSR; Crimean Tatar; On May 18, 1944, together with all other Crimean Tatars, he was deported from the Crimea to the Uzbek SSR. Lived in Gulistan, Uzbek SSR. Unfinished higher education. He worked in Tashkent as a turner at an aircraft factory, in 1969 he became a human rights activist - one of the founders of the "Initiative Group for the Protection of Human Rights in the USSR." Arrested 09/11/1969. Sentenced by the Tashkent City Court on January 19, 1970 under Art. 191-4 of the Criminal Code of the Uzbek SSR for 3 years of penitentiary. During 1969-1983. was arrested 6 times. Spent 15 years in prison for "spreading views discrediting the Soviet system." In 1975-1976. spent a 303-day hunger strike in Omsk prison. He was released in 1986. In 1983, he was the founder-editor of the illegal Information Bulletin of the Initiative Group of Crimean Tatars named after Musa Mamut. In 1987 he moved to Bakhchisarai. In 1987-1989. - Head of the Central Initiative Group of the National Movement of the Crimean Tatars. 1989-1991 - Head of the Organization of the Crimean Tatar National Movement. Since 1991 - head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, president of the Crimea Foundation. Since 1999 - head of the Council of Representatives of the Crimean Tatar people. 1998-2007 - People's Deputy of Ukraine III-V convocations. Since 2007 - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation from the bloc "Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense". Head of the Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples, National Minorities, Ethnic Groups, Deported Peoples and National Minorities of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations.