Almost exactly two years after Rayim Aivazov was seized by FSB officers and tortured, one of his abductors has appeared at the civic activist’s ‘trial’ as a witness for the prosecution. Both the prosecutor and the judges are doubtless aware that Aivazov’s account is correct since they blocked the defense’s legitimate application for crucial information from that night from April 16-17, 2019 to be obtained. They are also continuing to use the ‘testimony’ tortured out of him and fellow defendants, although Aivazov retracted it as soon as he was allowed to see a lawyer.
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Halya Coynash: Crimean Tatar political prisoner recognizes his torture
Crimean Tatars pray inside a mosque during the sacrificial Eid al-Adha festival in Yevpatoria on Sept. 24, 2015.
