The court in Simferopol extended the arrest of the defendants in the “Vedzhie Kashka case”

The Supreme Court of Crimea extended until December 7 the arrest of the defendants in the “Vedzhie Kashka case” Bekir Degermendzhi, Ruslan Trubach, Kazim Ametov. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity".

The house arrest of the fourth defendant, Asan Chapukh, has also been extended. The meetings were held behind closed doors and separately for each defendant in the case. The bailiff did not let the relatives into the courtroom. According to "Crimea. Realii”, referring to the Crimean Tatar activist Pakize Chaush, the bailiff did not allow people to be in the courthouse, kicked them out of the porch and used foul language against them.

In addition, the bailiff called the women who came as listeners terrorists and said that they should be shot. They wrote a statement about this incident.

Kazim Ametov spoke after the trial about his state of health. While in jail, he fell and injured his leg. The man's eyesight is rapidly deteriorating. His applications do not reach the medical unit of the isolation ward, and applications addressed to the head of the pre-trial detention center remained unanswered.

• Bekir Degermendzhi, Asan Chapukh, Kazin Ametov and Ruslan Trubach are accused of extortion: according to investigators, they extorted a large sum of money from Turkish citizen Yusuf Aitan. Their supporters claim that in reality Aitan stole $7,000 from the family of 83-year-old Vedzhie Kashka, a veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement, and the defendants tried to force him to return them.
• On the same day as the four accused, they tried to detain Vedzhie Kashka herself. She became ill, the woman was taken to the hospital, after which it became known that she had died .
• The defendants in the case have serious health problems. Chapukh suffered a minor stroke in the pre-trial detention center, and Degermendzhi suffered from chronic asthma.