A court in Russian-occupied Crimea has jailed Edem Bekirov for two months despite a heart condition, diabetes and amputation that make imprisonment a direct threat to his life and the charges against him nonsensical.
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Crimean Tatars flag waves at the ceremony commemorating the victims of the 1944 deportation of the indigenous people of Crimea, the Crimean Tatars, at Sofiyivska Square in Kyiv on May 18, 2018.
