Russia’s unlawful occupation of Ukraine’s Crimea, home to the Crimean Tatars, has sent a wave of terror across the peninsula. Russian occupation authorities are jumping through hoops to gag Crimean dissidents, among whom are religious people, journalists and activists. Crimean Tatars, who have mounted an overarching peaceful resistance to occupation since 2014, are bearing the brunt of repressions. Russia-controlled kangaroo courts churn out falsified criminal cases against them. Teymur Abdullayev is one of the Crimean Tatars who ended up in the hands of the Russian Themis. Now the concern heightens in the face of his Covid-19 complications in Russian prison conditions.
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Yuliia Rudenko: Russian prison is a bomb for health of a Crimean Tatar
A painted door like a prison cell corridor is seen during the presentation of the art project "Underground Despair", dedicated to 98 Crimean residents who were arrested after the annexation of the peninsula by Russia by Georgian artist David Kukhalashvili in downtown Kyiv on Feb. 8, 2021.
