A court in Crimea extended the arrest of Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis Akhtem Chiygoz

A court in Crimea issued a ruling extending the detention period for Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of Crimean Tatars Akhtem Chiygoz for three months. Lawyer Nikolai Polozov wrote about this on Twitter.

Akhtem Chiygoz was detained on January 29, 2015 on suspicion of organizing mass riots as part of a case initiated in connection with the clashes in Simferopol on February 26, 2014.

According to the investigation, on that day, unidentified persons, “ignoring the legitimate demands of the authorities to stop illegal actions, began to call on the present persons of the Crimean Tatar nationality to disobey the legitimate demands of the authorities, to use violence”; “They also began to call and by their example of unlawful behavior to induce those gathered to commit the above actions, which led to mass riots accompanied by violence against representatives of the Russian Unity movement and the self-defense of the Republic of Crimea, damage and destruction of property”, and unidentified persons of the Crimean Tatar nationality, succumbing to the calls of their leaders, took part in the riots, used physical force against representatives of the "Russian Unity" and self-defense of Crimea, broke into the building of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, where they damaged property, causing material damage in excess of 600 thousand rubles.