How could six Crimeans plan to violently seize power in Crimea and Russia without weapons, financial resources or support from Russia’s military? The question put by one of the six men, Crimean Tatar human rights activist Emir-Usein Kuku is largely rhetorical since the suggestion is clearly absurd. It is, nonetheless, one of the charges which Russia has used to hold six men, recognized by the Memorial Human Rights Centre as political prisoners, in custody for over two years. Absurdity, as Kuku himself notes, is not a problem for Russia’s FSB [security service] which can rely on compliant ‘judges’ to pass the sentences they demand.
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Crimean Tatar Muslim Aliev forcibly placed in a psychiatric clinic in Simferopol for being Muslim in Russian-occupied Crimea.
