OCCUPIERS IN CRIMEA PROHIBIT CELEBRATION OF END OF FAST
In Bakhchisarai of Crimea, police prevented residents of the sixth microdistrict Khan Chaiyr to celebrate the traditional holiday of Uraza-Bairam [Eid ul-Fitr], faky.ictv.ua reports.
Local residents said that the police forbade conducting the event because of the large crowd of people. Assembling was permitted only in small groups.
Over the course of many years, every year massive celebration of the Muslim holidays of Uraza-Bairam and Kurban-Bairam has occurred near the mosque in the sixth microdistrict. Because of the prohibition on conduct of the holiday, some Muslims decided to arrange a celebration on the territory of their residential area. (tr. by PDS, posted 22 July 2015)
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