“Religious minority communities, particularly Muslim Crimean Tatars, suffer because of Russia’s application of its more restrictive criminal and administrative codes, notably its onerous registration requirements and notorious anti-extremism law” says U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Chairman Robert P. George in a press statement released in Washington.
“The human rights and religious freedom situation in Crimea has deteriorated dramatically since the illegal March 2014 Russian occupation”
See the full statement here