Russia’s FSB have substantially increased the charges against Nariman Dzhelyal which they brought shortly after the Deputy Chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis took part in Ukraine’s Crimea Platform, together with high-ranking representatives of 45 countries.
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Nariman Dzhelyal, deputy head of Mejlis, the representative body of Crimean Tatars, makes a shot of himself posing at the first summit of Crimea Platform, an initiative of Ukrainian authorities dedicated to ending Russia's occupation of Crimea, in Kyiv on Aug. 23, 2021. A week later, he was arrested in the Russia-occupied Crimea.
