21-year-old Gulsum Alieva, an activist from the Crimean Solidarity civic initiative and daughter of political prisoner Muslim Aliev, has become the latest – and youngest – the Crimean victim of persecution to be added to Russia’s huge List of Terrorists and Extremists. It is hardly surprising that the Russian occupation regime failed to prevent an 18-year-old Kerch student from obtaining a hunting rifle and explosives and murdering 21 people when the FSB [Russian security service] spend their time scouring social media for ‘anti-Russian’ posts and reposts. Alieva’s inclusion on this List, with the serious economic and practical restrictions that it brings with it, is officially based on nothing more than a picture widely circulated which she reposted on her Facebook page. Unofficially, it is part of Russia’s mounting pressure on Crimean Tatar activists and especially on the Crimean Solidarity initiative which has emerged in reaction to the ever-growing number of political prisoners and human rights violations in occupied Crimea.
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 16, 2018 in Paris shows the logo of the social network Facebook on a broken screen of a mobile phone.
