The leader of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev attended the action.
In New York, a performance-protest was held in support of Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, who is continuing a hunger strike in a Russian penal colony.
Nearly fifty people set up a flash mob in Times Square demanding that Sentsov be released from prison.
Several participants in the action dressed in prison robes sat in the middle of the street holding an hourglass in their hands.
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In August 2015, the North Caucasus District Military Court in Russia's Rostov-on-Don sentenced Sentsov to 20 years in a high-security penal colony. Sentsov pleaded not guilty.
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