On Saturday, the 31st of August, at the Crimean Solidarity monthly meeting, it was noted that within the framework of the Crimean Marathon crowdfunding campaign, they had already managed to raise 580 thousand rubles to pay fines of the Crimean Tatar activists detained in Moscow. According to Crimea.Realities media agency, this is still an intermediate figure.
“In addition to the funds already raised, there are funds from the regions that we have not yet been able to transfer. But I hope that we will handle the fines that illegally burden our people. Considering the zeal of the people taking part in fundraising and crowdfundin
g campaign, we can definitely claim that it is not a problem of one single person, however, a problem of the whole nation”, – outlined the member of the Crimean Solidarity Server Cholakchik.
We remind that on the 10th of July, the Crimean Tatar activists took part in a protest rally on Red Square in Moscow against the persecution of the Crimean Tatars in the occupied Crimea. Participants unfurled posters calling to stop persecution on ethnic and religious grounds, claiming that a so-called fight against terrorism in the occupied Crimea is as a matter of fact a fight against dissent". "Our children are not terrorists", – they emphasized. After the rally began, Russian police detained seven of the activists. On the 11th of July, in front of the building of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, where the appeal of the defendants of the first so-called Bakhchysarai Hizb ut-Tahrir case took place, the Russian police detained 46 people who came to demonstrate their support of the compatriots.
On the 29th of July, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow imposed a fine of 20 thousand rubles to 18 Crimean Tatars, who were detained on the 11th of July in front of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. All of them were found guilty under Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The total amount of the fine was calculated to be 360,000 rubles or 5,666 US dollars. On the 5th of August, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow imposed a fine of 15 thousand rubles to 3 other Crimean Tatars, who were detained on the 11th of July near the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. On the 9th, 20th and 21st of August, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow fined another 17 Crimean Tatars by 10 thousand rubles.