Human rights activist Emir-Usein Kuku has been held in custody in Russian-occupied Crimea for almost 18 months, and has not been allowed even one visit from his wife. If in the first months after Kuku and five other Ukrainian Muslims, all but one Crimean Tatar, were arrested, their wives and children might hope to see them during detention hearings, even this has now ended. The detained men and their lawyers make the lack of any grounds for their detention clear, and Russia has now taken to holding even those hearings behind closed doors.
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Halya Coynash: Imprisoned Crimean Tatar rights activist denied any visits from his family
People hold portraits of Crimean political prisoners and victims of the Russian regime as they participate in the march for solidarity with Crimean Tatars who did a rally 3 years ago near Crimean parliament as they protested Russian occupation of the peninsula on Feb. 26.
