Crimean Tatar civic journalist and political prisoner, Marlen Asanov was told by a Russian FSB investigator that it was his own fault that he was imprisoned. They had given him warnings to leave Crimea, the FSB man said, but he had refused to take heed. He was, in short, no criminal, just a person that the Russian occupation regime didn’t want in Crimea. On Sept. 16, Asanov was sentenced by a Russian court to 19 years’ imprisonment. He was not accused of any actual crime, and the ‘evidence’ presented in a court of ‘involvement’ in a peaceful organization that is legal in Ukraine was provided by dodgy ‘secret witnesses’ and ‘experts’ with no professional competence to give such assessments.

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