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Halya Coynash: Jailed Crimean Tatar rights activist’s lawyer banned from Crimea
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Crimean Tatar human rights activist Emir-Huseyn Kuku
Telling the truth is now seemingly qualified as a threat to Russia’s national security. There could certainly be no other way in which Yevhenia Zakrevska, a young Kyiv lawyer, could pose a danger, yet she has just been denied entry to Russian-occupied Crimea.