The court approved the extension of the arrest of five defendants in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir

The military appeal court in Vlasikha upheld the decision to extend the arrest of five defendants in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case until June 20. “Crimean Solidarity” is about this.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don announced the decision to extend the preventive measure for Dzhemil Gafarov, Servet Gaziev, Seyran Murtaza, Alim Karimov and Erfan Osmanov on March 10.

adopted 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 Article 30 of the Criminal Code).

• and the Southern District Military Court has already sentenced ten other defendants in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case to terms ranging from 14 to 19 years in prison. March 10, March 18 - March 27, 2019, mass searches took place 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.