SIMFEROPOL: The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Crimea said he was arrested on Sunday by authorities in the Russian-annexed peninsula.
Father Kliment told AFP he was speaking by phone from a police station in the Crimean capital of Simferopol, where he had been arrested at a bus station. Police did not tell him why he was being held, he said.
The arrest comes after a historic religious split between Kiev and Moscow, which may lead to the closure of Kliment’s church, the Cathedral of Saint Vladimir and Saint Olga. The press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church said in a statement on Sunday that Kliment had planned to travel to Russia to attend the trial of a political prisoner.
Ukraine’s foreign ministry voiced its concern over his detention and the human rights situation in the occupied peninsula. "Russian occupants continue their systematic attack on Ukrainian Orthodoxy in Crimea," Kateryna Zelenko, the ministry’s spokeswoman, tweeted.
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