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This month, a Russian court handed long prison terms to the last of 25 Crimean Tatars detained in occupied Crimea in 2019 for alleged extremism. The defendants say they are being silenced for exposing the persecution of Crimean Tatars since Russia seized the Ukrainian region in 2014.
A Crimean Tatar rights activist being held in prison in Ukraine’s Russia-annexed Crimea had his detention extended on the day he should have been released.