Russia hits new depths, jails 76-year-old & gravely ill Crimean Tatar for peaceful protest

Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 2:25 (EET) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

A ‘court’ in Russian-occupied Crimea has jailed Server Karametov for ten days for supposedly ‘resisting the police’. The frail pensioner, who suffers from Parkinson’s Disease and other serious illnesses had already been fined 10 thousand roubles the previous day for what the same ‘judge’, Marina Vladimirovna Kolotsei chose to accept was an ‘unauthorized protest’ …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group