Russia certainly gives ‘Federal Security Service’ [FSB] officers an easy life in occupied Crimea. As long as they provide enough Ukrainian ‘spies’, ‘saboteurs’ and ‘terrorisms’, no questions get asked about the methods used to obtain the false testimony and / or ‘confessions’ on which such cases hinge. And when something ‘goes wrong’, and a victim finds the courage to stand up in court and retract his testimony, the FSB are free to teach him – and others – a chilling lesson.
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Halya Coynash: FSB free to torture and stage revenge prosecutions in Crimea
A Russia's FSB security service officer prepares to escort a detained Ukrainian sailor to a courthouse in Simferopol, Crimea, on Nov. 27, 2018.
