Halya Coynash: Russia forces own ‘defence’ in trial without a crime of four Crimean Tatars
People brought a poster with portraits of crimean political prisoners of Russia in Crimea as they attend a rally to commemorate 72 years since Crimean Tatar deportation on Maidan Nezalezhnosti on May 18.
Russia's trial of 4 Crimean Tatars on gravely flawed 'terrorism' charges began on June 1 as expected - with a flagrant but telling infringement of the men's right to a fair trial. All four men have their own lawyers, yet the court appointed four Russian lawyers. The men's objections to this were ignored.
