The de facto High Court in Russian-occupied Crimea has upheld a 10.5-year sentence against a young Crimean Tatar, Fevzi Sahandzhy despite the latter’s allegations of torture and the lack of any criminal behavior in the charges. Sahandzhy is one of the most terrifyingly anonymous of Russia’s political prisoners who appears to have been arrested as part of Russia’s attempt to demonize the Asker (or Noman Çelebicihan) volunteer battalion which is legal in Ukraine and which is not engaged in any combat.
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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.
