The court approved the decision to extend the arrest of those involved in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir

The military appeal court in Vlasikha upheld the decision to extend the arrest of the defendants in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Shaban Umerov, Raim Aivazov, Remzi Bekirov, Farkhod Bazarov and Riza Izetov. “Crimean Solidarity” is about this.

reports The decision to extend the preventive measure until June 19 was previously made by the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. At the same time, the court has already sentenced the accused - they were sentenced to 15 to 19 years in a maximum security colony.

handed down The Crimean Tatars were found guilty of attempting to seize power (Article 278 of the Criminal Code with the use of 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).

At the end of March, Izetov, Bekirov, Umerov and Aivazov are in pre-trial detention center No. 3 in the Rostov region - there they will await an appeal against the verdict.

delivered - In March 2019, mass searches took place in villages in the suburbs of Simferopol, where Crimean Tatars predominantly live. Then FSB officers detained several people in Rostov-on-Don. 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. All persons involved in the case of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" are political prisoners. passed published admitted - Hizb ut-Tahrir was recognized as a terrorist organization on Russian territory. 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.