Russia's FSB holds editor-in-chief of Crimean Tatar children's magazine for 36 hours in Crimea

Reports indicated that Ediya Muslimova, the editor-in-chief of the Crimean Tatar children's magazine Armanchyk, had gone missing in occupied Crimea. She reappeared on the night of 22-23 November and reported being held by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).

Source: Muslimova on Facebook

Details: She reported that FSB officers had questions about the work of her magazine after "receiving a tip-off".

Quote from Muslimova: "No force was used against me. The FSB officers were very respectful. It took them a long time to figure out who wrote this and who did that.

They had a lot of questions about my work and about the magazine."

Details: Muslimova also revealed that the magazine, with 1,485 subscribers, is still "somehow holding on".

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