Fera Abdullaeva has been fined by a court in Russian-occupied Crimea for trying to stand where she could see her political prisoner husband Uzeir Abdullaev as he was brought to yet another closed detention hearing on December 8, 2017. There are no grounds for holding these ‘court’ detention hearings behind closed doors, and none either for the prosecution of the young Crimean Tatar woman.

After months where the only chance wives, parents and the older children of political prisoners had of seeing the men were in court, the occupation regime began preventing even this, with hearings held behind closed doors. Most members of the family and other Crimean Tatars generally come to the court anyway, hoping to see the men as they’re brought to the court and simply wanting to be there to show support.

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