Memet Belyalov’s son, Ali was less than a year old when his father was arrested in October 2017. If Russia is allowed to have its way, Ali will have come of age before his father, a Crimean Solidarity civic activist and recognized political prisoner, is released from Russian imprisonment. He is one of almost 200 children, most of them Crimean Tatars, whose fathers have been taken from them and imprisoned, although they have committed no crime.
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An activist fixes names of missing people in Crimea during a protest against Russia's repression of Crimean Tatars in front of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv on Feb 25, 2020.
