Dzhemilev: Hundreds Of Crimean Tatars Prosecuted For Illegal Border Crossing
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Veteran Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev, barred by the pro-Russian government in Crimea from entering his homeland, told a news conference in Kyiv that authorities have launched hundreds of criminal cases after about 2,000 Crimean Tatars, who had gone to a border-crossing point near Armyansk to meet their leader on May 3, broke through lines of Russian troops to reach him. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)