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The prosecutor demanded that the defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case be sentenced to 15 years in prison
In Rostov-on-Don, the state prosecutor demanded that five defendants in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case be sentenced to 15 years in a maximum security colony. The public association “Crimean Solidarity” talks about this.
reports The case is being considered in the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. At the meeting, the prosecutor also asked to add one and a half years of restriction of freedom to the punishment after release.
Tofik Abdulgaziev, Vladlen Abdulkadyrov, Izzet Abdullaev, Medzhit Abdurakhmanov and Bilyal Adilov are accused of participation in the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) and preparation for a violent change of power (Article 278 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 1 of Art. 30 CC).
The defendants have been in pre-trial detention for more than three years. They were detained in March 2019 - after searches, which, according to Crimean Solidarity, were “the most massive in recent decades.”
- 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 - 29 Crimean Tatars are involved in the second Simferopol case. Four of them are wanted, 25 people are in custody. The publication "Krym.Realii" has a detailed report on the Simferopol group in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. 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.