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A prosecutor in Russian-controlled Crimea has asked a court to sentence a Crimean Tatar activist who opposes Moscow’s rule over the Ukrainian region to a suspended sentence of three years.

At a hearing in the city of Feodosia on February 28, the prosecutor also asked the court to bar Suleyman Kadyrov from “public activities” for two years — a sentence that would prevent him from demonstrating.

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