Halya Coynash: Stalinist echoes in new armed arrests in Russian-occupied Crimea
Activists hold pasteboard figures of humans symbolizing a single protest of a killed Crimean Tatar activist Reshat Ametov during the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, as they they commemorate the tragic events in St. Sophia Square in Kyiv on March 16.
Four more Crimean Tatars have been arrested and could face long terms of imprisonment on trumped-up ‘terrorism’ charges following the latest offensive in Russian-occupied Crimea. Dozens of armed and masked men arrived at Muslim homes and at the Crimean Tatar restaurant Karavan Sarai ‘Salachik’ in Bakhchysarai on Thursday morning, May 12, carrying out searches and arresting four men.
