Halya Coynash: Crimean journalist faces 5-year sentence for ‘separatism’
A Crimean Tatar covered with the flag of the Crimean Tatars, holds a placard reading "Free political prisoners-hostages", during a demonstration of Crimean Tatars, in front of the Russian embassy in Kyiv, on Nov. 6.
Mykola Semena, a Crimean freelance journalist has been formally charged with making ‘calls to violate the Russian Federation’s territorial integrity’ and could face a 5-year sentence. The charges are under an article of the Russian Criminal Code introduced in May 2014, and are, as feared, being used to try to silence pro, test over Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea.
