Arrested Crimean Tatar human rights activist Kuku disappeared in the Rostov region

Arrested Crimean Tatar human rights activist Emir-Usein Kuku, accused in the Yalta case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, was taken away from SIZO-4 in the Rostov Region. This was reported to OVD-Info by his lawyer Sergei Loktev.

Loktev said that he had come to the pre-trial detention center to visit his client, but he was denied admission on the pretext that Kuka had been taken away. Now his whereabouts are unknown.

UPD

• The investigation claims that Kuku was allegedly a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir from at least September 18, 2015 to February 11, 2016, that is, until the moment of detention by the FSB. Investigators believe that Kuku and the other defendants “were entrusted with the responsibility of propagating the ideas of this organization among the local population in order to promote the views, ideas, program guidelines of the terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir and persuade the latter to participate in the activities of this terrorist organization.”
• On June 28, Kuku went on a hunger strike.
• Emir-Usein Kuku, Muslim Aliyev, Vadim Siruk, Ever Bekirov, Refat Alimov and Arsen Dzhepparov, defendants in the Yalta case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, are accused of participating in the activities of the terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir (Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) and preparing for violent seizure of power (Article 278 with the application of Article 30 of the Criminal Code).
• Hizb ut-Tahrir is recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia. Cases of terrorism have been opened in different regions of the country, while members of the cells of the organization are accused and sentenced to various terms in a strict regime colony only on the basis that they met in apartments, read religious literature and recruited new members.