Crimean Tatar activist prosecuted for Facebook birthday greeting to Mustafa Dzhemilev

Monday, June 5, 2017 - 1:10 (EET) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

Rustem Mennanov has become the latest Crimean Tatar to be fined or jailed for innocuous social network posts. Such prosecutions are often pretexts for persecution, but also a form of intimidation and warning that even posts from years before Russia’s invasion of Crimea will be used for repressive purposes. …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group