The court returned the Yalta Hizb ut-Tahrir case to the prosecutor's office to tighten the charges

In Rostov-on-Don, a judge of the North Caucasus District Military Court returned the materials of the Yalta Hizb ut-Tahrir case to the prosecutor's office in order to re-draw the indictment. about this with reference to the lawyer of the Agora International Human Rights Group Aleksey Ladin, who represents the interests of one of the defendants in the Emir-Usein Kuku case. writes Mediazona

The judge believes that the charge of the person involved in the case, Inver Bekirov, should be reclassified from part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (participation in a terrorist organization) to part 1 of this article (organization of the activities of a terrorist organization). Ladin told the publication that both the defense and the prosecutor's office opposed the return of the case.

Mediazona quotes the lawyer as saying:

The defense believes that this decision is not justified. With this decision, the judge undermines the fundamental norms of law, since the court must be independent of the position of the prosecution, independent of the position of the defense, and consider the criminal case impartially. At the moment, the court has actually ruled that Bekirov is guilty of committing a more serious crime and has given direct instructions from the prosecutor's office to reclassify the charges to more serious ones.

The court also extended the detention of all defendants in the case until 28 November. The lawyers intend to appeal the decision to return the case and the prosecutor's office and to extend the arrest.

• The defendants in the Yalta Hizb ut-Tahrir case - Emir-Usein Kuku, Muslim Aliyev, Vadim Siruk, Inver Bekirov, Refat Alimov and Arsen Dzhepparov - were arrested in February 2016. All six are accused of preparing for a violent seizure of power (Article 278 with the application of Article 30 of the Criminal Code), five of them are accused of participating in the activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir terrorist organization (Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code), Aliyev is accused of organizing the activities of a terrorist organization. organizations (part 1 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). None of the defendants in the case pleaded guilty .
• 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.
• The Sova Information and Analytical Center, which monitors and analyzes both manifestations of racism and xenophobia, and cases of illegal application of anti-extremist and anti-terrorist legislation, emphasized that recognizing an organization as a terrorist organization is illegal.