Against a young girl

In 2018 the Crimean Tatar poet, Alie Kenżalieva, published poems about the ways of celebrating Victory Day in Russia on May 9 every year. She believes that dancing, singing and wearing military uniforms are not proper ways of celebrating the end of such hell, horror and tragedy as the Second World War. In her opinion, it should be commemorated differently. However, the investigators in Simferopol noticed signs of Nazi rehabilitation in her poems and initiated proceedings against her.

“None of us – lawyers, human rights defenders – deal with extremist activity!”

On December 7, a Crimean Tatar lawyer Emil Kurbedinov was sentenced to five days in jail by a Russian court in Simferopol. He is a well-known human rights defender, who has been active in political trials since the annexation of Crimea by Russia. On December 6 in Simferopol Emil Kurbedinov was arrested by officers of […]