A Crimean court under Russian occupation has demanded better paperwork before prosecuting Crimean Tatars for driving with a Crimean Tatar flag on the anniversary of the 1944 Deportation. The judge could have terminated proceedings, but did not, so fines at least are likely. As one Ukrainian official has noted, this will provide further evidence for the UN International Court of Justice that Russia is discriminating against Crimean Tatars and ignoring the provisional measures imposed by the Court, including the order to stop the persecution of the Mejlis, or representative assembly of the Crimean Tatar People.
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People hold a huge flag, a combination of a Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar flags, on Independence Square in Kyiv on March 23, 2014.
