Server Karametov, the frail, seriously ill, and courageous pensioner whom a court in Russian-occupied Crimea jailed for peaceful protest, was released on Saturday evening after 10 days’ imprisonment. It had seemed that the occupation regime could sink no lower, yet it found a way.
The elderly man who suffers from several serious illnesses was due to be released after 9 p.m. That, at least, was the claim made, while in fact an hour or so earlier, Server Karametov was taken, without any money, to the bus station and simply left there. Thankfully, people had begun gathering early in order to greet the unwavering defender of persecuted Crimean Tatars and some young men realized that he was being taken to the station and went to find him.
