Kurbedinov awarded the Front Line Defenders Prize

The Crimean Tatar lawyer Emil Kurbedinov was awarded the Irish non -governmental organization Front Line Defenders for human rights defenders in danger. This was reported on the NGO website.

The awarding took place in Dublin, where Kurbedinov arrived along with other finalists or representatives of the finalists in prison. The name of the laureate was declared directly at the ceremony.

“This reward is an achievement for all human rights defenders in the Crimea, who defended the rights of their compatriots,” the Crimea. Realities report the words of Kurbedinov during the award. “We do not know what will happen tomorrow, but we know one thing: we must continue to fight for our rights peacefully.”

The annual Front Line Defenders award is awarded to human rights activists who work with risk both for their own life and freedom, and for the life and freedom of their loved ones. This year, over 150 activists from 42 countries were put forward to receive awards. In addition to Kurbedinov, the finalists were the Vietnamese blogger, the former political prisoner Fam Than Ngyen, the South African law and the eco-defender Nonle Mbutum, Kuwait's human rights activist Abdulhakim al-Fadley, who was serving a annual prison term, and the Nicaraguan eco-activist Franciska Ramirez Torres.

As QHA clarifies , the monetary expression of the prize is 15 thousand euros.

35 -year -old Kurbedinov is one of the most active and famous human rights lawyers in Crimea. He participates in a number of political affairs. Among his customers are the deputy chairman of the Medzhlis of the Crimean Tatar people Akhtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umarov, the defendants of the Crimean Muslims of Muslims Ruslan Zeitullaev, Vadim SiruK, Enver Mamutov, Teymur Abdullaev, journalist Nikolai Semen.

On August 4, 2016, the security forces tried to penetrate the Kurbedinov office . The lawyer himself, together with his colleague, Edem Semedlyaev, was in Rostov-on-Don in court in the court in the first case of Crimean Muslims, and there were only helping girls in the office. Visiters who refused to introduce themselves demanded to let them into the room and began to knock on the door and windows. They also performed some manipulations with Internet cables going to the room. Assistants of lawyers more reliably locked and closed the blinds. They did not call the Russian police, because in this case the door would have to be opened. After some time, the security forces left without getting inside.

On January 26 of this year, the judge of the Railway District Court of Simferopol, controlled by Russia, Tatyana Belinchukarrested Kurbedinova for 10 days in Article 20.3 of the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of extremist symbols) for publishing a video from the Hizb Ut-Tahrir rally in Crimea in Crimea in 2013. The lawyer placed his post on June 6, 2013, that is, before the annexation of Crimea. The protocol on a lawyer fabricated the Central Bank.

In the office of Kurbedinov and Semedlyaeva, a search was held. The security forces seized computers, as well as some magazines. Semedlyaev warned that the information on computers is a lawyer’s secret, but the visits ignored this remark.

After the release from the special reception of Kurbedinov,I had to re -read the affairs that he is conducting, and re -copy their materials, since the seized computers on which the documents were stored, the CPE returned him only later.