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Interviews — 16 DecemberOleksiy Bessarabov: Dream of the SeaIn political prisoner cases, Russian security services often invent and fabricate “evidence” to create a realistic narrative. This time, they lucked out with a plot, as the “Sevastopol saboteurs” case involved three friends with shared histories
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Free voices of Crimea — 19 NovemberRuslan Suleymanov: “If I Stand Aside, How Will I Look My Loved Ones in the Eye?”The popular Crimean Tatar saying “Qırımda yaşa” [“Live in Crimea”] became a defining principle for the whole people, meaning that no matter where you are or what happens, you must return to your homeland and preserve your identity
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Interviews — 6 NovemberErnes Ametov: “Why Did They Choose Our Door?”The colony is a very unpleasant and dangerous place, but being next to my husband and children, when the four of us stood together and hugged for the first time, I felt absolute happiness
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Interviews — 17 OctoberTymur Ibrahimov: “I Will Not Stray From My Path.”Even in prison, Ibrahimov seeks ways to find strength and support himself. The first is reading the Qur’an. He has the same one as Dilyara at their home in Bakhchysarai, and reading it is the couple’s way to stay connected
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Free voices of Crimea — 20 SeptemberRustem Sheikhaliev: To Build a Home and To Be FreeSuriya and the children only managed to settle in the new house in 2015. Sheikhaliev never got to enjoy it with his family. To live in his own house. To hear the laughter of his grandson, who will soon turn one in October 2024
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Free voices of Crimea — 30 AugustMarlen (Suleyman) Asanov: My NameOn October 10, 2017, as he returned home, Asanov leaned close to his four-year-old daughter, Safiye, inhaling the familiar scent of her dark hair. He whispered, “I feel for those who have been deprived of their freedom. I want every prisoner to embrace their children and feel their scent as soon as possible”
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Free voices of Crimea — 9 AugustRemzi Bekirov from Freedom StreetOn a piece of white sheet, he drew with a black pen the wagons in which the Crimean Tatars were deported from Crimea. On each of them are written the years of deportation: 1944 and 2014
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Free voices of Crimea — 23 JulySeyran Saliyev, without whom things just won’t happenSaliyev found himself at his first protest campaign when he was only seven months old. Things like this happen when your mother is an activist in the Crimean Tatar national movement advocating for the return of her people to their homeland