The armed detention of prominent Crimean Tatar rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov and armed searches of his offices and home have ended with him being sentenced to 10 days imprisonment on administrative charges linked to a video posted quite legally in 2013. This is the second act of harassment against lawyers defending Crimeans imprisoned on fabricated charges in Russian-occupied Crimea.
Kurbedinov was detained on Jan. 26. He and his colleague Edem Semedlyaev were heading to the home of Seiran Saliev, a Crimean Tatar activist where a search was underway.
