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In the debate of the parties to the “February 26” case, the prosecutor Dmitry Taran, who was fabricated against the Crimean Tatar activists, requested for Ali Asanov and Mustafa Degermmenji for five years conditionally, and for the escorter of Kantemirov, Emender Emirviliev and Arsen Yunusov - three and a half years with a three -year test term for each. This was reported by "Crimea. Realities."

Hearing on the merits lasts almost a year and a half - since November 2016. The process is conducted by the judge of the Central District Court of Simferopol, controlled by Russia, Sergei Demenok.

All five defendants were charged with part 2 of Article 212 of the Russian Criminal Code (participation in the riots), which provides for from 3 to 8 years of the colony. They are charged with attacks on three supporters of the pro -Russian organization "Russian Unity" during protests near the building of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea on February 26, 2014. According to the prosecutor, Degermmenji and Emirviliev beat the "victim" Shlyagin, Asanov and Yunusov - Alexei Ivkin, and Kantemirov - Sergey Berbentz.

On February 26, 2014, the protests of the Maidanites, mainly Crimean Tatars, tore the vote planned in the Crimean parliament on the appointment of an illegal separatist referendum. A year later, the occupation authorities began to factory the case of "riots." The occasion was the clashes between the supporters of the Euromaidan and the participants in the rally of pro -Russian forces, at the same time passed by the parliament. Then the Russian prosecutor’s office of the region stated that during these clashes two people died, and dozens received various injuries.

However, in September last year, the prosecutor asked for a significant softening of the prosecution . He petitioned the exclusion from the plot of the case that the defendants burst into the building of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea. He also announced the need to significantly reduce the list of “victims”, excluding 83 of 86 of them from the number of 86 - all except Shlyagin, Ivkin and Berbentz.

The first process in the case began in December 2015 in the Supreme Court of the annexed Crimea, but already in February 2016 the collegium returned the materials to the prosecutor's office. At the preliminary hearings in the framework of the repeated process, the judge of the Supreme Court Viktor Zinkov shared the case. The materials in relation to the main person involved - the deputy chairman of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people Akhtem Chiygoz - he left for consideration in the region of the region, and transferred the main case to the district court.

Four defendants in the Great “February 26 case”, as well as Chiygoz, were enclosed in jail in 2015. Kantemirov and Emirvaliev after two months of imprisonment were released for guarantee; Asanov and Degermmenji weretransferred to house arrest only in April 2017. Whether Arsen Yunusov was previously in custody is unknown.

Degermmenji and Asanov completely deny the guilt. Emirvaliev and Arsen Yunusov recognized participation in a fight, but rejected the accusation of riots. Kantemirov initially adhered to the same position. However, in February 2017, he petitioned for the allocation of materials in relation to himself in a separate production and consideration of them in a special order . Such a measure can be applied only if the sane guilt is found. Judge Demenok, however, rejected the petition.

In the fall of 2015, it turned out that Asanov and Degermmenji offered the release from the pre-trial detention center in exchange for a negotiation of Chiygoz, but both political prisoners rejected the proposal. On March 6, speaking with the testimony of the trial of the deputy chairman of the Mejlis, they said that the proposals to stipulate Chiygoz emanated from the mufti of Crimea Emirali Ablaev , known as a collaborator and a scammer. The conversations of Ablaev and the Politseki took place in the premises of the TFR.

The court on the merits of the Chiygoz case started in August 2016. The process took more than 150 meetings. On September 11, 2017, the collegium of the Supreme Court of the annexed Crimea as part of Zinkov (presiding), Alexei Kozyrev and Igor Kryuchkova sentenced the deputy chairman of the Mejlis to eight years of the general regime under part 1 of Article 212 of the Russian Criminal Code (organization of mass riots). This is the minimum period provided for by the Code of this charges.

Chiygoz himself refused to plead guilty. In the last word, he stated that the sentencewould be a sentence to all Crimean Tatars .

On October 25, even before the sentence entered into force, Chiygoz, along with another deputy chairman of the Mejlis - Ilmi Umrov, sentenced to the real term in the case of separatism - was sent to Turkey . From there, both politicians moved to the continental Ukraine. The basis for the liberation was the decrees of pardon signed by Vladimir Putin after the appeal of the Mufti Ablaev.

Later it became known that Chiygoz and Umarova were exchanged for Russian agents arrested in Turkey, Yuri Anisimov and Alexander Smirnov, involved in the murder of the former Chechen field commander, the administrator of the Caucasus Center site Abdulvakhid Edilgereyev.

In October and December 2015, in the “case of February 26”, two more defendants were convicted in a special order - Escender Nebiev and Yunusov Talyas. Both received conditional terms.

In November 2017, Bekir Degermendi - the father of the defendant of the “case on February 26” - was arrested on a fabricated charges of extortion (“Vedzhe Kashka case”). After sending to the pre-trial detention center, 57-year-old Degermendzhi, who has a disability of group III in connection with a severe form of bronchial asthma, did not receive adequate treatment for several weeks. As a result, in mid -December, he fell into intensive care. The Politzeck is returned back to the Politzec insulator only next month. Like other defendants in the case, Degermmenji the Sr. rejects.