Paul
Goble
Staunton, November 8 – Aisha Seitmuratova,
82, who has participated in the Crimean Tatar national movement for decades,
was detained and then released by Russian guards at the administrative border
between Ukraine and occupied Crimea and allowed to return to her home in Simferopol
(atr.ua/news/193416-ajse-seitmuratova-nahoditsa-u-seba-doma-v-simferopole).
The Russian border troops took this
step because Seitmuratova has a US passport, which she acquired after being
expelled from the USSR in 1978. In the years between her expulsion and her
return to her homeland following the collapse of the Soviet Union, she was a
frequent star in Crimean Tatar demonstrations and hearings about her nation in
Washington.
Since returning to Crimea, she has
operated a pension where she has welcomed her many friends and supporters; but
she has never yielded in her support for the Crimean Tatar cause and its
aspirations for independence.
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