Armed searches & jail for deleted reposts to silence protest in Russian-occupied Crimea

Friday, May 5, 2017 - 3:13 (EET) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

Tofik Abdulgaziev and his family were subjected to an armed search on Thursday, almost certainly as a warning to stop reporting cases of repression. In the meantime, the jailing of civic activist Remzi Bekirov, purportedly for a 7-year-old post on a long-deleted VKontakte page, has been upheld …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group