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Prominent Russian human rights lawyer Mark Feygin has been barred from leaving Russia in a move he says is aimed at preventing him from defending Crimean Tatars at an Organization for Security and Cooperation event in Warsaw.

Feygin posted a photograph of the order barring him from leaving on Twitter on August 18 and said it also is intended “to block my visits to Ukraine.”

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