The court limited the time frame for familiarizing with the case of the defendants in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir

On October 16, the Kiev District Court of Simferopol limited the time for familiarization with the materials of the case of several defendants in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity".

At the court hearing, the FSB investigator filed a petition to limit the time for familiarization with the case documents in respect of Shaban Umerov, Remzi Bekirov and Farkhod Bazarov. The court partially satisfied it and set the deadline for familiarization until November 20. The court made a similar decision in relation to Riza Izetov.

The defense of the defendants in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir is sure that such a court decision is not motivated. “This is the desire of the FSB to send this entire group of political prisoners from Crimea to Rostov-on-Don to the Southern District Military Court and get rid of this case. They connected the Kyiv District Court, which today made such a decision, ”the lawyer Emil Kurbedinov commented on the decision of the court.

“The law provides that such a restriction is necessary in exceptional cases, when there is a fact of obvious delay on the part of the accused or his lawyer in the process of familiarizing himself with the materials of the criminal case,” explained defense attorney Nazim Sheikhmambetov and noted that, on the contrary, they are interested in getting acquainted with the materials of the criminal case as quickly as possible. case files to prepare for trial. “There was no evidence of obvious delay,” Kurbedinov’s lawyer said.

All lawyers noted that their clients have been getting acquainted with the case materials for more than a month in difficult conditions.

Remzi Bekirov, Riza Izetov, Shaban Umerov are accused of organizing the activities of a terrorist organization (part 1 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). The investigation also considered Farkhod Bazarov the leader of the cell, but later reclassified the charge from an organization to participation in the activities of a terrorist organization (part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). Everyone is also accused of preparing for the violent overthrow of the constitutional order (Article 278 of the Criminal Code with the application of the 1st part of Article 30 of the Criminal Code).

• In the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, 29 Crimean Tatars are being tried, 25 of them are in a pre-trial detention center, four are wanted. In the first Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, on June 18, 2019, the North Caucasian Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced five defendants to imprisonment for terms of 12 to 17 years; on appeal, were reduced by six months. the terms of all five
• Hizb ut-Tahrir was recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia. In this regard, criminal cases are initiated in different regions of the country, while the defendants are sentenced to various terms in a strict regime colony only on the basis that they met in apartments, read religious literature and spread their ideas. 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 activities. *