[1] The goal of Ametov and his organisation is to restore land rights in Crimea to the Tatar people, 200,000 of whom were forcibly deported to Central Asia in 1944 by Joseph Stalin, under suspicion of being Nazi collaborators.
The Crimean Tatars were allowed to return to their homeland towards the end of the Soviet era, but in many cases their lands had been redistributed in their absence.
Ametov stated that "when we kept getting refused by the authorities, we had to organise ourselves because our ancestors' land was given away to Russians and our historical heritage was being lost.
[3] Ametov was sentenced to four years in prison in October 2010 for intention infliction of trivial or medium bodily injury to a police officer by the Central District Court of Simferopol.
This case was connected to an incident in 2007, where it was alleged that Ametov struck a police inspector in the face and caused a minor injury to his nose.