A court in Moscow fined participants in pickets against the persecution of Crimean Tatars

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow imposed fines of 10 thousand rubles on the participants of the picket against the persecution of the Crimean Tatars, brothers Nikolai and Alexander Rekubratsky. This was reported to OVD-Info by Konstantin Kotov.

The Rekubratskys were found guilty under the article on participation in an uncoordinated rally (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of the September 6 picket, which the court considered a mass event. On that day, the brothers were standing at the presidential administration with a poster "No deportation of Crimean Tatars to Russian prisons." The activists were detained .

• After the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russian security forces began to put pressure on Crimean Tatar activists. The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people was declared an extremist organization and banned. Criminal cases are initiated against Crimean Tatars, mainly for membership in Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has been recognized as a terrorist organization. Crimean Tatars are regularly searched and interrogated.