A court in Simferopol has limited access to the case of the twelfth defendant in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case.

On October 29, the Kyiv District Court of Simferopol limited the time for familiarization with the case materials to another person involved in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Seyran Murtaza. about this . The defendant's lawyer Edem Semedlyaev told the Crimean Solidarity movement

Murtaza is charged under articles on participation in the activities of a terrorist organization (part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) and preparation for a violent seizure of power (article 278 of the Criminal Code with the application of part 1 of article 30 of the Criminal Code). As clarified in the "Crimean Solidarity", the court ordered the accused and his defense counsel to familiarize themselves with the materials until November 20.

Lawyer Semedlyaev, in a conversation with Crimean Solidarity, spoke about the conditions under which the defendants study the case materials:

“The acquaintance takes place in very difficult conditions, when almost all 25 people are brought to the FSB departments, kept in two or three rooms: the guys are practically sitting on top of each other. [They issued] only two laptops [for all the accused] to listen to audio recordings and watch video recordings.”

According to Semedlyaev, the accused are taken out of the cell at 7 am, by 10 am they are taken to the FSB department, where they get acquainted with the case materials under such conditions until 5 pm. Then the defendants are returned to the isolation ward at 9-10 pm. The next day, the procedure is repeated.

• Seyran Murtaza is already the 12th person involved in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, who was given a limited time to familiarize himself with the case materials. On October 25, 2020, the court made the same decision in the cases of Raim Aivazov, Osman Arifmemetov, Eskender Suleymanov and Ruslan Suleymanov , on October 19, the terms were limited to Shaban Umerov, Remzi Bekirov, Farkhod Bazarov and Rize Izetov , on October 22 - to Yashar Muedinov and Rustem Sheykhaliev , and on October 23 October - Enver Mametov .
• The defendants in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir are accused under articles on participation in the activities of a terrorist organization (part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) and preparation for a violent seizure of power (article 278 of the Criminal Code with the application of part 1 of article 30 of the Criminal Code). In total, 29 Crimean Tatars are being tried in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, 25 of them are in a pre-trial detention center, four are wanted.
• 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. The SOVA Information and Analytical Center believes that Hizb ut-Tahrir is unlawfully recognized as a terrorist organization, and its members should not be prosecuted solely on the basis of party activities (holding meetings, reading literature, etc.).