Over one thousand people have taken part in flash-mobs and other acts of solidarity with three Crimean Tatar political prisoners facing horrifically long prison sentences next week. The whole of Russia’s political and religious persecution of citizens of Ukraine who have committed no crime is shocking, but here children have seen their father, grandfather and uncle all taken away. Will they come for their mother next? Or for the children themselves?
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Arzy Bekirova (L) and her husband Damir Minadirov, Crimean Tatars and natives of Crimea, look out the window of their rented apartment in the Kyiv suburbs on July 1, 2020. They are among thousands of Crimean Tatars who left the peninsula after it was annexed by Russia in 2014 and moved to mainland Ukraine.
