iPolitics By Alexandra Chyczij. Published on Dec 10, 2020 10:25am For as long as there are people on earth, there will be evil. But what we can do is make them think twice about whether it’s in their interest to keep serving evil. A tower outside the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (Pexels photo)
Rivzan Abdullaievich Zubairov, Roman Viktorovich Saprunov and Maxim Mikhailovich Nikitin are judges in Russia’s Southern Military Court in Rostov.
On September 16, they passed judgement on seven Crimean Tatar civic activists and journalists, sentencing them to prison terms of between 13 and 19 years.
Marlen Asanov, Memet Belyalov, Timur Ibragimov, Seyran Saliyev, Server Mustafayev, Server Zekiryayev, and Edem Smailov were sentenced to jail for no crime other than their courageous resistance to Russia’s illegal occupation of Crimea, the ancestral homeland of the Crimean Tatar People and an integral part of Ukraine. All innocent men, they now face the prospect of growing ol