More than 100 people marched in Kyiv on Feb. 26 to show solidarity with the political prisoners jailed by the Russian authorities in the occupied peninsula of Crimea.
The date was chosen to mark the day of Feb. 26, 2014, when thousands of Crimean Tatars protested in the Crimean capital of Simferopil against the local authorities’ attempt to pass a decision to separate Crimea from Ukraine and hand it over to Russia.
Russia annexed the peninsula anyway a month later. Since the annexation, the human rights situation has gotten bad in Crimea, with many political activists, a lot of them Crimean Tatar, getting imprisoned or going missing.
