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RFE/RL: Police search house of arrested Crimean Tatar

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Crimean Tatars flag waves at the ceremony commemorating the victims of the 1944 deportation of the indigenous people of Crimea, the Crimean Tatars, at Sofiivska Square in Kyiv on May 18.
Photo by Mykhailo Markiv

Police in Ukraine’s Russia-annexed Crimea region have searched the house of detained Crimean Tatar Muslim Aliyev.

Aliyev was arrested in 2016 along with five other men for what Russia-controlled authorities said was “membership in the Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group,” which is banned in Russia but legal in Ukraine.

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