In Crimea, the head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis was sentenced in absentia

The Supreme Court of Crimea sentenced the Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Refat Chubarov, in absentia to 6 years in a general regime colony on charges of organizing riots (Part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code). this . reported The press service of the court

According to the Investigative Committee, Chubarov organized a rally in Simferopol on February 25, 2014 near the building of the Crimean Parliament, the Supreme Council. between two thousand Mejlis supporters and pro-Russian activists Clashes broke out ; Two people died and dozens more were injured.

The court also found Chubarov guilty of two counts of calls for separatism (parts 1 and 2 of Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code) and released him from punishment due to the partial decriminalization of this article in December 2020.

Chubarov was arrested in absentia in 2015 in the first case of calls for separatism. A year later, in 2016, the Supreme Court of Crimea recognized the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people as extremist. Chubarov lives in Ukraine; until 2019, he was a deputy of the Ukrainian Rada.