Russia’s arrests and ‘trials’ of Crimean Tatar political prisoners are such a conveyor belt of repression that it can seem hard to distinguish one case from another. The majority involve the same fake ‘terrorism’ charges; identical ‘expert’ opinions; anonymous witnesses and predetermined sentences. The victims, however, have names and families. In the vast majority of cases, small children have been awoken by masked men, bursting into their homes, brandishing machine guns, before taking their fathers away. Each such trauma is individual and may leave a scar for life.
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A man participates in the march for solidarity with Crimean Tatars who did a rally 3 years ago near Crimean parliament as they protested Russian occupation of the peninsula on Feb. 26.
