Two Crimean Solidarity activists, both of them mothers with young children, were detained in occupied Crimea on May 30, and held for many hours in the so-called Centre for countering ‘extremism’, without being allowed to see the lawyers who arrived as soon as they heard. This is the latest of many brazen attacks on Crimean Tatar civic activists in occupied Crimea, but by far the most serious to date against women. Both women – Lutfiye Zudieva and Mumine Salieva – have played a major role in informing the international community about repression in Crimea and this is undoubtedly a further attempt to silence courageous activists.
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 5, 2014, Pro-Russian activists stand behind a Russian flag during their rally in the western Crimean city of Yevpatoria.
