On Wednesday 15 March, several members of Crimea's Tatar community spoke about their difficult living conditions in Crimea and called on the EU for help.
During a press conference organised by the ECR Group, Umar Ibrahimov, whose son is reported as missing, said that before he was kidnapped by the Russian road police, his son, who is a political leader, had been threatened. "I call on you, if you can, to help him", he said, adding that there were numerous people like his son in Crimea.