MOSCOW — Human Rights Watch says Russian authorities have intensified a crackdown on Crimean Tatars in an apparent bid to silence dissent on the Black Sea Peninsula.
Associated Press: Human Rights Watch accuses Russia of persecuting Crimean Tatars
People wave a huge Crimean Tatars flag (natives from Crimea) during an action on Independence Square in Kyiv on Feb. 28, 2015 marking then the first anniversary of the beggining of annexation of Ukrainian Crimea by Russia.