Bashkir Singer's Whereabouts Unknown After His Home Was Raided By Security Forces

Bashkir singer Altynay Valitov, a supporter of activist Fail Alsynov who was sentenced to four years on January 17 for "inciting ethnic hatred," has gone incommunicado after his domicile in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Bashkortostan republic, was raided by security forces. Valitov posted a video online on January 18, appealing to Ufa residents to come to his home because police officers were “coming." He later wrote that police had left. His video was subsequently deleted and he disappeared from social media and did not answer calls from journalists. To read the original story by Current Time, click here.