For the second time in a month, Russian media have produced fake news stories about ‘terrorists’ after a prominent lawyer the first time and civic activists on both occasions were detained in Russian-occupied Crimea. The report on Feb. 21 even used entirely false video footage that had nothing to do with the detention on ‘extremism’ charges of Crimean Tatar activist Marlen Mustafaev and then of 10 other Crimean Tatars who gathered outside his home and reported the arrest on social media.
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A Crimean Tatar covers her face with a blank sheet during a demonstration of Crimean Tatars, in front of the Russian embassy in Kyiv, on Nov. 6, 2015, to demand to stop political repressions organized by Russian security forces against the Crimean Tatars on Crimean peninsula captured by the Russia in 2014.
