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Halya Coynash: Silence on critical verdict will free Kremlin hand for more repression in Crimea
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The call from Ilmi Umerov, Crimean Tatar leader and victim of punitive psychiatry for world attention to all Crimean political prisoners could not have come at a more critical moment. Verdicts are due on September 7 in Russia’s trial of four Crimean Muslims from Sevastopol. Attention is urgently needed and not only because all four men are recognized political prisoners.