Two of the Crimean Solidarity activists whom Russia arrested on March 27 and quickly moved out of occupied Crimea have been brought back to Simferopol. Both Tofik Abdulgaziev and civic journalist Remzi Bekirov are being held in a basement, which with horrifically unsanitary conditions. In reporting the situation, Abdulgaziev’s lawyer, Emil Kurbedinov noted that they had been hearing such accounts for five years now. Before that, they had only heard similar stories from their grandparents about Stalin’s Deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar people in 1944.
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Halya Coynash: Russia treats imprisoned Crimean Tatars like victims of the 1944 Deportation
A man holds his son and the National flag of Crimean Tatars during a memorial ceremony on the Independence square in Kyiv on May 18, 2019 in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the deportation of the indigenous population of the Crimea by the Soviet Union.
