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❌On September 11, 1969, Mustafa Dzhemilev, an activist of the Crimean Tatar national movement, was arrested by the KGB.

At that time, Mustafa was one of the founders of the Human Rights Protection Initiative Group. An activist of the Crimean Tatar movement, a dissident, a political prisoner, who later became a national hero and led the movement of Crimean Tatars for repatriation.

He was convicted in January 1970 under Article 190-1 to 3 years in prison. He devoted his whole life to the national struggle, and was tried for the first time in 1966, then in 1970, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1983 and the last time - in 1986.

The movement of the Crimean Tatars for the return to Crimea was the most massive dissident movement in the USSR - the actions of this movement alone numbered hundreds of thousands of participants. He played a major role in the fight against Soviet totalitarianism.

Knight of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise IV and V degrees, the Order "For Intellectual Courage" and the Order of the Republic of Turkey, laureate of the award: Fritjof Nansen of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Pylyp Orlyk "For the Democratization of Ukrainian Society", "Light of Justice" and "Solidarity", the owner of the "Cross of Solidarity of Struggle".

He is an honorary doctor of law from Seljuk University and the Higher Institute of Technology, an honorary doctor in the field of international relations from Canakkale University named after the Eighteenth of March, an honorary citizen of the Turkish cities of Kastamonu and Kirikkale. Poland nominated Mustafa Dzhemilev for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.

Currently, Mustafa Dzhemilev is a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the "European Solidarity" party. He is a supporter of the European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine, the establishment of the fundamental principles of democracy in Ukrainian society, which is the basis for the restoration of the rights of the Crimean Tatar people, who will once again return to their historical land — Crimea — a constituent part of the Ukrainian state.

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