At least eight people were detained in Russian-occupied Crimea on August 14 for holding peaceful single-person pickets, or for photographing the police detaining the picketers, with one person – 64-year-old Yarikul Davlatov – now facing charges of holding an ‘unauthorized meeting’, For many Crimean Tatars there was no choice but to come out onto the street, after the unwarranted arrest and jailing last week of 76-year-old Server Karametov. Like him, all the picketers held signs stating clearly: “Putin, our children are not terrorists! They are not extremists either!”. …read more
Mass detention of Crimean Tatars for solidarity with jailed 76-year-old Server Karametov
