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Crimean Tatar lawyer arrested for ten days
The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Simferopol found lawyer Emil Kurbedinov guilty under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Propaganda or public demonstration of attributes or symbols of extremist organizations) and arrested him for ten days. This was reported on Twitter by journalist Anton Naumlyuk, who was in court.
reported According to him, the press was not allowed into the trial - without reason, simply on the instructions of the chairman of the Zheleznodorozhny Court.
The hearing, as the journalist noted, only considered the lawyer's placement of prohibited materials on the VKontakte network; the court refused to include materials from Facebook, despite the request of an investigative officer. Naumlyuk reported that "Kurbedinov partially admitted guilt. He says that he placed it, but did not engage in propaganda."
Lawyer Emil Kurbedinov took part in the trial on the clashes in Simferopol on February 26, 2014, the case of the organization “Hizb”, banned in Russia, against whom a criminal case was opened for calls for separatism, and the deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Ilmi Umerov.
criminal case ut-Tahrir case of the Crimean journalist Nikolai Semena accused under the same article Advokat on the morning of January 26.