Crimea upheld the refusal to hand over the body of an Uzbek citizen killed during a search

On September 21, the Supreme Court of Crimea upheld the decision of the Kievsky District Court of Simferopol, which considered it legal to refuse to hand over the body of Nabi Rakhimov, who was killed by security forces during a search on May 11, to his widow Sohiba Burkhanova. This was reported by Krym.Realii.

On August 9, the Kiev District Court denied lawyer Siyar Panich a complaint against the refusal of the Investigative Committee to hand over Rakhimov's body.

• On May 11, during searches of Crimean Tatars, FSB officers killed Nabi Rakhimov, a native of Uzbekistan. Details of the criminal case on which investigative actions were conducted are unknown. The security forces refuse to hand over the body of the victim. According to the lawyer, the investigation may try to hide the traces of the crime and how and with what Rakhimov was killed.
• from Crimea was expelled After that , Sohiba Burkhanova, the wife of the murdered man, , now she is in a temporary detention center in the Krasnodar Territory. On May 19, security forces came to the home of Crimean Solidarity activist Zidan Adzhikelyamov - he believes that their visit is connected with the search for the children of Rakhimov and Burkhanova, who disappeared on the day of their mother's deportation. On May 27, the ECHR banned the expulsion of Burkhanova, but on May 28, the Crimean Supreme Court upheld the decision on her forced expulsion to Uzbekistan.
• Nabi Rakhimov is a native of Uzbekistan. After a trip to his homeland in 2009, local authorities filed a case against him for participation in the Hizb ut-Tahrir party, which is banned in Uzbekistan, Russia and other countries. In this regard, Rakhimov was detained in Russia in 2013 and was going to be deported to his homeland. The man turned to lawyers - he suggested that political persecution and torture await him in Uzbekistan. At the same time, in Russia, he was kept in inhuman conditions in an overcrowded cell, designed for several hours of detention. As a result, the ECHR sided with Rakhimov and demanded compensation in the amount of 17,000 euros for legal and moral costs. According to Crimean Solidarity, the Rakhimov family moved to the republic in 2015.