A court in Simferopol sentenced a Ukrainian accused of setting a house on fire to two years.

On July 26, the Central District Court of Simferopol sentenced Kharkov resident Alexander Steshenko, who was involved in the case of arson of the house of Mufti Emirali Ablaev, to two years. The CrimeaSOS portal talks about this with reference to lawyer Konstantin Rustemov.

colony-settlement reports Steshenko was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (deliberate destruction or damage to property - arson). The Kharkov resident was also accused of creating an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code), however, the case was dropped due to his active repentance, “Crimea. Realities,” referring to the Russian FSB for Crimea and Sevastopol.

writes the press service Alexander Steshenko was accused in the case of arson of the house of Emirali Ablaev, the head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Republic of Crimea, formed as a result of the annexation of the peninsula to the Russian Federation. On May 21, the FSB reported that members of a certain extremist society formed in Kharkov set fire to the house of Mufti Emirali Ablaev in January 2018. Then the mufti said that Molotov cocktails were indeed thrown into his house, but no fire occurred.

announced told According to FSB officers, participants in the extremist community were allegedly promised $500 for the action they carried out. The security forces arrested only Alexander Steshenko in the arson case. The department reported on the same day that community organizer E. Veliyev and participant A. Tretyakov were arrested in absentia.

In early April, the CrimeaSOS portal reported that Alexander Steshenko was detained upon entering Crimea at the Chongar checkpoint. Then he managed to call his mother and report that he was detained by border guards, who stated that it was not him in the passport photo. A few days later it became known that Steshenko was arrested for 12 days for disobedience to a lawful order of a police officer (19.3 of the Administrative Code). April 24 Steshenko from a special detention center for those serving an administrative sentence in an unknown direction. Only a month later, the FSB announced the initiation of a criminal case against Steshenko.

reported taken away Lawyer Konstantin Rustemov, who visited Steshnenko in the Simferopol pre-trial detention center, told the CrimeaSOS portal that, according to the convict, a preventive measure was chosen for him in the form of a written undertaking not to leave, although in fact he was kept in a basement unknown to him for a month and a half. He also said that he was forced to testify under torture. According to Steshnenko, he was subjected to electric shock and beatings.

• In connection with the hunger strike of director Oleg Sentsov, information is known about 88 people associated with Ukraine and persecuted by the Russian authorities - this list includes Alexander Steshenko. OVD-Info collected