12 Crimean Tatar activists, as well as prominent lawyer Emil Kurbedinov and journalist Taras Ibragimov were detained in Simferopol on Friday after gathering with the relatives of Renat Paralamov, the father of four who was abducted and brutally tortured on September 13.

The police claimed that the activists were holding an ‘unauthorized meeting’ at which they were allegedly chanting something.

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