In Rostov-on-Don, the court extended the arrest of Crimean Tatar activists for three months

In Rostov-on-Don, the Southern District Military Court extended for 3 months the preventive measure in the form of detention for five members of the second Simferopol group of Hizb ut-Tahrir. “Crimean Solidarity” is about this.

reports According to the court decision, Dzhemil Gafarov, Servet Gaziev, Seyran Murtaza, Alim Karimov, Erfan Osmanov will remain in custody until June 20, 2022. The prosecutor justified his request to extend the arrest by the fact that “the defendants are accused of a particularly serious crime and may try to escape with Ukrainian passports.”

The Crimean Tatars are charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist organization in connection with involvement in the Islamic political party Hizb ut-Tahrir (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 use of Part 1 of Art. 30 CC).

The publication notes that among the accused there are two elderly Crimean Tatars - one of them suffered a mini-stroke in a pre-trial detention center, the other has a disability.

Earlier today, March 10, the Southern District Military Court sentenced the other five defendants in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case to prison sentences ranging from 15 to 19 years. Remzi Bekirov, Riza Izetov, Shaban Umerov, Raim Aivazov and Farkhod Bazarov were found guilty of preparing to seize power (Article 278 of the Criminal Code using Part 1 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code). In addition, Bazarov was found guilty of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code), and the other four were found guilty of organizing such activities (Part 1 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code).

sentenced - on March 27, 2019, mass searches were carried out in villages in the suburbs of Simferopol, where Crimean Tatars predominantly live. Then FSB officers detained twenty people in Crimea, three more a few days later in Rostov-on-Don, and three were put on the wanted list. In total, 29 Crimean Tatars are involved in the second Simferopol case. Four are wanted, the rest are in custody. Before the case was brought to court, the accused were divided into groups of five, and the case of each group was considered in a separate court hearing. The publication "Krym.Realii" has a detailed report on the Simferopol group in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. passed published - Hizb ut-Tahrir was recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia. In this regard, criminal cases are being initiated in different regions of the country, with defendants being sentenced to various terms in a maximum security colony only on the basis that they met in apartments, read religious literature and disseminated their ideas. According to a number of experts, Hizb ut-Tahrir was unlawfully recognized as a terrorist organization, since its participants in Russia did not prepare or carry out terrorist acts.