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Halya Coynash: Russia denies alleged ‘Ukrainian Crimea saboteur’ access to a lawyer
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Russian soldiers stand near a tank outside a former Ukrainian military base in Perevalnoye, near the Crimean capital Simferopol, on March 27, 2014.
If a person has freely confessed to planning 'sabotage', there is no reason to prevent him from seeing a lawyer of his own choice.