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Russian riot police raid Crimean Tatar TV channel


MOSCOW (AFP) – Masked Russian riot police on Monday raided the office of a television channel serving Crimean Tatars, a minority ethnic group in Crimea that opposed Moscows seizure of the peninsula from Ukraine last year.In a move the Organization for Security and Cooperation slammed as intrusion against the freedom of the media, dozens of armed masked men searched the headquarters of the ATR channel in the regional centre Simferopol, seizing servers and other equipments.This is the first such raid, deputy general director of the channel, Lilya Budzhurova, told AFP.Budzhurova, who also reports for Agence France-Presse, said police and investigators …read more

Source: Dunya TV

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