Russia condemned for launching ‘machine of wholesale persecution’ in occupied Crimea

Tuesday, March 6, 2018 - 23:13 (EET) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

On the eve of his 47th birthday, his third in Russian captivity, Crimean Tatar father of four, Muslim Aliev has been declared a political prisoner, together with five other Crimean Muslims, now on trial in Russia. The renowned Memorial Human Rights Centre has given a devastating analysis of the charges Aliev, human rights activist Emir-Usein Kuku; Refat Alimov; Enver Bekirov; Arsen Dzhepparov; and Vadim Siruk are facing, and the machine for wholesale persecutions which Russia is now illegally using in occupied Crimea. …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group