Mother of Crimean Tatar jailed in Russia 'starts hunger strike'
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| Publication Date | 21 June 2018 |
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June 21, 2018 11:45 GMT
By Crimea Desk, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service
Raime Primova, mother of the detained activist Nuri Primov
The mother of a jailed Crimean Tatar man says she has started a hunger strike, calling on the Russian authorities to release her son, who was convicted of terrorism charges.
Raime Primova told RFE/RL that she started the hunger strike on June 20 after sending a request to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) to demand her son, Nuri Primov, be freed.
Primova said she was only drinking water and a doctor was monitoring her health.
Primov was arrested in Russian-controlled Crimea in 2016 and later convicted of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamist group.
Primov, who denied the charge, is serving a five-year sentence in a penal colony in the Russian republic of Mari El.
Moscow's takeover of Crimea in March 2014 was vocally opposed by many members of the Crimea Tatar population, who make up a sizable minority on the peninsula.
Rights groups and Western governments have denounced what they call a campaign of repression targeting members of the Turkic-speaking Crimean Tatars and others who opposed Moscow's seizure of the peninsula.
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