Fifteen Crimean Tatars were detained on Oct. 11 merely for gathering outside a ‘court’ in occupied Crimea to show solidarity with three political prisoners, facing 17,13 and 12-year sentences for similar acts of solidarity. The Russian occupation authorities claim that it was due to pandemic restrictions that they initially drove even the relatives of the men away from the ‘court’, however lawyer Edem Semedlyaev noted, that such ‘anti-pandemic’ measures target only Crimean Tatars.
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Crimean Tatars gather outside the ’court’ in Russia-occupied Crimea on Oct. 11, 2021, to show solidarity with three political prisoners, facing 17,13 and 12-year sentences.
