Five mothers, two wives, a father and a sister traveled from occupied Crimea to Kyiv to share what it’s like in the family of a political prisoner. Their loved ones – Crimean Tatar men arrested by Russian authorities on the occupied peninsula – are now behind bars in Crimea’s Simferopol or Russia’s Rostov-on-Don. Some have been in prison for over two years already, as their cases drag on in court, many still awaiting a verdict.
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Hromadske International: Life for family members of political prisoners from Crimea
A search operation in legal office of Emil Kurbedinov, the lawyer for Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, on Jan. 26, 2017 in Simferopol, Crimea.
