Halya Coynash: 20 years for pro-Ukrainian views in Russian-occupied Crimea
People brought a poster with portraits of Crimean political prisoners of Russia in Crimea as they attend a rally to commemorate 72 years since Crimean Tatar deportation on Maidan Nezalezhnosti on May 18.
23-year-old Andriy Kolomiyets, who has been in custody for over a year in Crimea, is facing a possible 20-year sentence. on surreal charges of 'attempted murder' over an alleged Molotov cocktail during Euromaidan. Despite the legal nonsense in an indictment over something that Russia can have no jurisdiction over, this is already the second such Euromaidan-linked trial. And there is every indication that it will not be the last. The Crimean Human Rights Group warns that anybody holding pro-Ukrainian views in Russia or Russian-occupied Crimea could find themselves facing prosecution.
