Osman Arifmemetov was one of the first civic journalists in occupied Crimea and there is every reason to believe that his arrest and imprisonment are the direct result of his tireless work in reporting on the ever-increasing number of armed searches, arrests and politically-motivated ‘trials’ since 2014.
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A search operation in legal office of Emil Kurbedinov, the lawyer for Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, on Jan. 26, 2017 in Simferopol, Crimea.
