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Halya Coynash: Russian lawyer abducted, beaten, jailed and now charged with attacking the police

By Halya Coynash.
Mikhail Benyash, from the video taken after his detention/abduction in Krasnodar.

A Russian lawyer defending victims of repression is facing a potentially long prison sentence on openly fabricated criminal charges, with this setting a terrifying precedent for other lawyers both in Russia and in occupied Crimea.

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