Former imam will not be held accountable for speaking at rally

The prosecutor's office of Tatarstan did not give consent to bringing the activist of the Tatar national movement Airat Shakirov to administrative responsibility. The former imam was detained on November 6 after a rally in honor of the 25th anniversary of the republic's Constitution. about this Writes "Idel. Realities".

On November 6, Airat Shakirov was detained after speaking at a rally. The police considered that Shakirov, speaking at the rally, deviated from the declared topic of the action in his speech and began talking about the Maidan instead of the Constitution.

Idel. Realities,” Shakirov told what he said at the rally: “I said that the youth in the villages are very unhappy with the reduction of the Tatar language and that if someone goes to the Maidan, they will definitely come.”

The court session did not take place, because the police officer said that permission from the prosecutor of Tatarstan was needed, since Airat Shakirov is a voting member of the precinct election commission.

In October, Shakirov's house was searched in connection with the criminal case against the All-Tatar Public Center (VTOC). A rally in honor of the constitution was also organized by the WTOTS.

In May 2017, Shakirov was fined for posting a video from a rally in Makhachkala in 2013 on his VKontakte page. The court immediately released him from liability due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

In January 2015, Shakirov was arrested for ten days for two images in support - a collage and a cartoon with a swastika. The caricature, where a man with a whip drives a swastika from Donbass, was accompanied by the inscription "Russia, go home". The judge in the ruling pointed out that the association of the swastika with Russia is unacceptable.