The defendants in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case Remzi Bekirov, Farhod Bazarov and Raim Aivazov are charged with another article – “ Attempted violent seizure of power and change of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation”. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity group with reference to the lawyer Edem Semedlyaev.
“From today's petition, we learned, and it was a big surprise for us that the guys were charged with yet another article – article 278 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: “Attempted violent seizure of power and change of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation””,- Semedlyaev said.
We remind that on March 27, 2019, Russian security forces in the occupied Crimea carried out mass searches in 26 Crimean Tatars' dwellings. Literature was seized from some activists, which, according to the Crimean Solidarity, was planted by the security forces. In addition to books and brochures, people were confiscated phones, tablets, laptops, passports. The servivemen behaved rudely. It is reported that they used physical force against detainees and entered the houses in shoes. Lawyers who arrived at the site of the searches were not allowed to contact the detainees. According to the results of these searches, 20 people were suspected of their involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, which was prohibited in the Russian Federation. On March 28, three more Crimean Tatar activists were detained, in whose dwellings searches were carried out in their absence. On March 27-28, the occupation court arrested all 23 detainees after the searches. They chose a preventive measure in the form of detention. Subsequently, all persons involved in this so-called case were repeatedly extended the terms of their arrest.