‘Judges’ from a Russian-controlled court in occupied Crimea spent Oct. 26 imposing fairly large fines for entirely fabricated ‘infringements’ by Crimean Tatar civic journalists; the coordinator of Crimean Solidarity and other activists, as well as by lawyer Edem Semedlyaev, who was detained while representing others taken into custody. All the hearings took place at the Central District Court, with around four acquittals. It is an indication of the judicial degradation under Russian occupation, that these were the startling part of the day, not the imprisonment of 22 men for 24 hours and fines imposed against men who had simply gathered outside a court, observing all the relevant pandemic-related requirements..
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This undated photo shows Crimean Tatars from left clockwise Farkhod Bazarov, Riza Izetov, Rayim Aivazov, Remzi Bekirov and Shaban Umerov.
