Administrative arrests of Crimean Tatars who came to support their fellow countryman were recognized as legal

The Supreme Court of Crimea recognized as lawful the arrest decisions made on February 21 against the Crimean Tatars who came to support Marlen Mustafayev, whose house was being searched. about this on Facebook. writes Osman Arifmimetov, one of those arrested,

Mustafayev's house was searched as part of an administrative case on the demonstration of extremist symbols. Ten people came to his house, some were filming. All of them were detained and then arrested for five days. Mustafayev himself was arrested for 11 days.

Sessions in the Supreme Court on complaints against the decisions of the Kievsky district of Simferopol were postponed several times. According to Arifmimetov,

The court tried to make the appearance of the court. Tried to question witnesses, watched videos. Witnesses for the prosecution did not appear, except for the police themselves. It was not visible on the video recordings that they interfered with transport, since the guys were not at the intersection. It was not audible how they cursed towards the police in Crimean Tatar. No one waved their hands.

All this did not allow the judges to make an adequate decision.

Witnesses-policemen were confused in indications. The judge helped the police answer questions. There was an impression that neither the judge nor the police were oriented in space, they really did not understand how the streets were located in the array