Crimean Tatar Rustem Vaitov is one of the ’Sevastopol 4’, the first four Ukrainian Muslims to have been arrested in Russian-occupied Crimea and later sentenced by a Russian court to five years or, in one case, much more for unproven ‘involvement’ in the peaceful Hizb ut-Tahrir organization which is legal in Ukraine.
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This undated photo shows Rustem Vaitov in court.
