Veteran Crimean Tatar leader and Ukrainian MP, Mustafa Dzhemilev, has been informed that the Russian Investigative Committee will be formally laying charges against him on 10 April 2020. The most grotesque of the three charges listed is of “illegally crossing the state border of the Russian Federation”. This is how the invading power describes Dzhemilev’s crossing the administrative border from mainland Ukraine to his native Crimea in May 2014, after Russia banned him from his homeland.
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Mustafa Dzhemilev, historical leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement and former Soviet dissident speaks to journalists during his interview for AFP in Kyiv on May 6, 2014.
