A Russian prosecutor has demanded sentences of between 15 and 21 years against eight Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists, including Crimean Solidarity Coordinator and Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, Server Mustafayev. The arrests and ‘trial’ of the eight men were already a ‘record-breaker’ in being the first time that Russia had so brazenly targeted civic activists and journalists in occupied Crimea. It now looks set to bring the most horrific sentences to date imposed by an illegal occupation regime against men who have committed no crime at all.
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A man holds a one-person protest in Crimea on Oct. 14, 2017, holding a banner that reads "Crimean Tatars aren't terrorists" in Crimean Tatar language. Some 100 Crimean Tatars held one-person protests against the Russiaan authorities' oppressions in Crimea.
