Russia is using fabricated charges carrying huge sentences to try to crush the Crimean Solidarity movement in occupied Crimea and all Crimean Tatar human rights activists. This is the damning assessment of the Memorial Human Rights Centre which has recognized as political prisoners all 24 Crimean Tatar activists* arrested in Russia’s most recent ‘operation’.
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Halya Coynash: Russia seeks to crush Crimean Tatar human rights movement
(Archive photo) Russian militarymen guard the Crimean Parliament building in Simferopol, the administrative center of Crimea, on March 1, 2014.
