A court in Crimea has extended the terms of arrest of those accused in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case until August.

Yesterday, June 5, the Supreme Court of Crimea extended the terms of detention of the defendants in the Yalta case of Hizb ut-Tahrir by two months. They will remain under arrest until August 8. The court session on the extension of the preventive measure was declared closed. It is reported by "Crimea. Realii” with reference to the lawyer Dzhemil Temishev.

Lawyer Aleksei Ladin, who defends one of the accused, Crimean Tatar human rights activist Emir-Usein Kuku, said the Russian court's reasoning was "standard."

“The arrest was extended for two months, that is, up to a year and a half. This is the maximum term of detention in this category of cases. The reasoning was standard. I can’t say any specifics due to the fact that the court session was closed,” Ladin said.

The four defendants in this case - Emir-Usein Kuku, Muslim Aliyev, Enver Bekirov and Vadim Siruk - were arrested on February 11, 2016. Two more - Refat Alimov and Arsen Dzhepparov - have been in custody since April 18, 2016.

Crimean Tatars were arrested on suspicion of participation in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, which, according to a number of human rights activists, was unjustifiably recognized as a terrorist organization.