russian legislation used as weapon against 74-year-old historian and the truth about the Crimean #Tatar Deportation

74-year-old Enver Seitmemetov was an obvious target of repression for a regime that is increasingly using propaganda, legislation and insane prosecutions to rewrite history and white out its crimes

https://khpg.org/en/1608815617

#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:

"قتربیه کتابی - عبدالقیوم ملا عبدالناصر اوغلی‌ننڭ تصنیفی‌در" by Kajum Nasyri

[Казань: Tipo-litografija Imperatorskago Universiteta, 1898]

http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/121215

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Crimean #Tatar political prisoner with a malignant brain tumour forced to sign a fake ‘clean bill of health’

Under pressure from the FSB, russian 'doctors' have proven willing to betray their oath and effectively ensure that Tofik Abdulgaziev dies a very painful death in a russian prison colony

https://khpg.org/en/1608815581

Volodymyr #Zelenskyy Took Part in an Iftar and Presented State Awards to Muslim Warriors

President of #Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy took part in an iftar – the evening meal held during the holy month of #Ramadan – together with Ukrainian warriors who practice Islam, leaders of the Mejlis of the Crimean #Tatar People, representatives of the #Muslim community and clergy, and heads of foreign diplomatic missions.

Read more here 📎 https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/volodimir-zelenskij-uzyav-uchast-v-iftari-ta-vidznachiv-voyi-103189

Brutal russian roulette with the life of gravely ill Crimean #Tatar political prisoner

Results of a recent echocardiogram are alarming, yet the russian prison authorities are doing nothing to minimise the direct danger to Amet Suleimanov’s life

https://khpg.org/en/1608815557

Armed terror and planted ‘prohibited literature’ in new attack on Crimean #Tatar family

russia's FSB came for two Crimean Tatars on 12 February, leaving children deeply traumatized. Nariman Seitaliev is in custody, while Yunus Suleimanov has disappeared

https://khpg.org/en/1608815513

russia fabricates charges to imprison Crimean #Tatar activists and as weapon for deportation from their homeland

russia has used horrific sentences in reprisal against those civic #journalists and activists who refused to be silenced or to leave occupied #Crimea. Now it is cynically using such fabricated charges as excuse for later driving them from Crimea

https://khpg.org/en/1608815460

No mercy for dying Crimean #Tatar civic activist imprisoned for reporting russian repression

russia is flouting its own legislation and demonstrating horrific brutality in failing to release Tofik Abdulgaziev, who should be with his family at this time

https://khpg.org/en/1608815444

At the time when #Denmark colonized #Greenland, #Crimea was still a #Tatar khanate.

Today, some 300 years later, Sergey fucking Lavrov complains:
"Greenland is not a natural part of Denmark, but became part of it by colonial conquest."

Now I really, really would like to see Russia's foreign minister draw a map of #Russia. A natural map, of course. Excluding any "unnatural" territories that Russia might have annexed by colonial conquest. Come on Sergey, draw it!

#decolonizerussia #russiaUkraineWar

Prominent Crimean #Tatar journalist and political scientist prosecuted for ‘extremism’ in an academic work

The occupation authorities were evidently looking for any pretext to harass Lenora Dyulber, presenter of the Crimean Tatar talk show Merkez and came up with two, each as preposterous as the other

https://khpg.org/en/1608815430