MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a prominent Crimean Tatar leader to two years in prison for his criticism of the Crimean Peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine by Russia.
After Crimea was seized in 2014, Russia passed a law making it illegal to question or dispute the annexation.
A court in the Russia-occupied Crimea on Wednesday sentenced Ilmi Umerov, former deputy chairman of the Crimean Tatars’ Mejlis representative body, to two years in prison for comments he made about the annexation on television. Crimea’s Supreme Court effectively banned the Mejlis in April, declaring it an extremist organization.
His lawyers say the …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
