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Tatars step up resistance to Russian rule over Crimea

In this photo taken Sunday Jan. 24, 2016, Elnara, the wife of arrested Tatar protester Ali Asanov, sits with one of her daughters, Mumine, in her home in the village Urozhayne, Crimea. The Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe in its report on human rights in Crimea last year said residents and particularly those who opposed the annexation have seen a full spectrum of human rights and fundamental freedomss violated. The OSCE listed the incarceration of Crimean Tatar leaders, suppression of the Tatar self-governing body Mejlis, expulsions, intimidation and the effective blanket ban on Tatar public events among the most alarming examples of the ongoing crack-down. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)UROZHAYNE, Crimea (AP) — Elnara Asanova lives alone with her four small children because her husband, an ethnic Tatar, is in jail. Last April, when she was seven months pregnant, police grabbed him from the streets of their village because he had taken part in a Tatar protest against Russian annexation of Crimea.




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