In Simferopol, the lawyer of the defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case is being held in a pre-trial detention center

In Simferpol, the lawyer of the defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Vahram Shiroyan, is being held in a pre-trial detention center. this on Facebook . reported Journalist Anton Naumlyuk

The defendants and lawyers participated in the court session via video link from the pre-trial detention center. After the meeting was over, the FSIN officers searched the lawyers and found a flash drive in Shiroyan's bag. The employees of the pre-trial detention center stated that they were drawing up an administrative protocol against the lawyer, it is not known what Shiroyan is accused of.

UPD 15:45 According to Naumlyuk, the SIZO staff did not draw up a protocol against Shiroyan. They explained the detention by the fact that the prosecutor, who was present at the meeting, informed them about the telephone illegally carried by the lawyers. The FSIN officers did not find the phone

• Aider Saledinov, Uzeir Abdullayev, Rustem Ismailov and Emil Dzhemadenov are accused of participating in the activities of the terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir (part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code), Teymur Abdullayev of organizing the activities of a cell (part 1 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) . This is the fourth case against alleged members of Hizb ut-Tahrir initiated on the territory of Crimea.
• All five defendants were detained and arrested in November 2016 after a series of searches in the homes of Crimean Tatars. In December of the same year, Saledinov, Ismailov and Uzeyir Abdullayev stated that they were beaten by FSB officers while being transported to the investigation.
• Hizb ut-Tahrir is recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia. Terrorism cases 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.

According to a number of experts, Hizb ut-Tahrir was unlawfully recognized as a terrorist organization, since its members in Russia did not prepare or carry out terrorist acts.