Fwd: Crimea - attempt to silence or drive out lawyers probably before new wave of repression

[Andrew Grigorenko]

Andrew P. Grigorenko
President of General Petro Grigorenko Foundation
www.grigorenko.org

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From: Halya Coynash
Date: Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 4:08 PM
Subject: Crimea - attempt to silence or drive out lawyers probably before new wave of repression
To:

Good Evening,

Normal attempts to stagger reports of repression in Crimea are impossible today and reaction from the international community is urgently required.  Russia is quite simply trying to drive out all courageous lawyers to ensure that it can carry out repression with impunity. 

Russia resorts to open terrorization of lawyers & their families in occupied Crimea

http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1485431080 

 (the text here  Russian FSB stage abduction to deprive Crimean Tatar leader of his lawyer was written before today’s events, but demonstrates that Kurbedinov’s arrest is part of a major offensive)

 

Dirty Russian Media Lies as Repression Mounts in Occupied Crimea

http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1485461638  

 

On Russia’s scale of repression, the measures are lower, but the intimidation tactics to silence protest – identical

Russia uses repression to remove witnesses to illegal arrests in occupied Crimea

http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1485304814

 

Best wishes,

Halya Coynash