Crimean Tatar activists detained in Simferopol were arrested until January

The Kievsky District Court of Simferopol arrested four Crimean Tatars until January, who were detained on Thursday, November 23. about this on Facebook . writes Novaya Gazeta special correspondent Anton Naumlyuk

Kazim Ametov, Asan Chapukh, Ruslan Trubach and Bekir Degermendzhi were arrested until January 15, 2018.

• FSB officers detained them on the morning of 23 November. Among them were the leader of the Yalta Mejlis Asan Chapukh, the father of Bekir Degermendzhi, the person involved in the criminal case of the riots near the building of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea in February 2014, the chairman of the Mejlis of the village of Grushevka (Sudak district) Kazim Ametov and Kurtseit Abdullayev.

The men were accused of extorting money on an especially large scale from a Turkish citizen. After that, a criminal case was initiated for “Extortion committed by a group of persons” (Part 2 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code). In addition, the homes of several local activists were searched. * After the incident, died a veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement, Vedzhiye Kashka, . They wanted to detain her with other activists, but the woman became ill and was taken to the hospital.

Activist of the Crimean Tatar national movement Nariman Dzhelal claims that a Turkish citizen, because of whom a group of participants of the Crimean Tatar national movement was detained, stole the money of Vedzhiye Kashka's family.