Residents of the Simferopol district Ak-Mechet gathered to protest the beating of a 14-year-old Tatar boy who, according to his parents, was beaten for using his native Crimean Tatar language while on the phone, reported BBC Ukraine. The incident occurred on March 31, at around 17:00, when the boy was returning from school. However, circumstances of the beating became more widely know only after the neighborhood meeting on Wednesday, April 9.
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US warship USS Donald-Cook sails through the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 10, 2014, en route to the Black Sea. The United States is sending a guided missile destroyer to the Black Sea in order to reassure European allies in the region following Russia's annexation of Crimea. Pentagon spokesman colonel Steven Warren insisted the deployment of the Donald Cook was meant only to reassure regional allies. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC
