The ‘police’ in Russian-occupied Crimea effectively abducted Vilen Temeryanov on 28 December, holding the Crimean Solidarity civic journalist in custody on nonsensical charges of ‘organizing a mass event’. Given the number of Crimean Tatar civic activists and journalists whom Russia has already sentenced or is likely to sentence to decade’s imprisonment without any crime, this offensive on administrative charges against a civic journalist was almost ‘vegetarian’. It is, nonetheless, aimed at the same end – terrorizing Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian activists into silence or exile.
