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Published Feb. 19. Updated Feb. 19 at 7:42 pm
A painted like 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.
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Volodymyr Petrov
At 4 a.m. of Feb. 17, Russian law enforcement raided seven homes of Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea. In what has become a usual occurrence on the peninsula, six men have been arrested and accused of membership in the Islamic Hizb ut-Tahrir organization. But Crimean Tatar human rights activists assert this is a retribution for the men’s pushback against repressions of Russian occupying forces against the indigenous nation since 2014.