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RFE/RL: US State Dep condemns arrests of Crimean Tatars by Russian authorities

Published March 29, 2019 at 11:55 am

(FILES) Russian Special forces soldiers block an area as they raided an apartment building in Saint Petersburg in an operation targeting North Caucasus militants, reportedly killing two suspects, on August 17, 2016.

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The U.S. State Department has condemned the arrests of 23 Crimean Tatars in Russian-annexed Crimea.

In a March 28 Twitter statement, State Department deputy spokesman Robert Palladino called on Russia to release the arrested men “and the 70+ other unjustly imprisoned Ukrainians.”