Russia Hands Harsh Prison Terms To Crimean Tatars After ‘Illegitimate’ Trials

(RFE/RL) — A military court in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don sentenced five Crimean Tatar defendants to 13 years in a strict-regime prison on January 11, having convicted them of participating in a “terrorist organization.”

Appeals notwithstanding — including one filed with the European Court of Human...