Halya Coynash: ‘Terrorist’ charges to silence Crimean Tatar human rights activist
People attend a rally to commemorate 72 years since Crimean Tatar deportation on Maidan Nezalezhnosti on May 18.
Russia’s calculation in crushing dissent in Crimea has proven disturbingly accurate. Ignore protest, hiding even world-renowned filmmaker Oleg Sentsov far from the media and create a virtually total blockade on information in Crimea. You can then carry out a brazen abduction of prominent Crimean Tatar figure like Erven Ibragimov, and continue imprisoning people virtually indefinitely on surreal chances with little protest at all from the West.
