Defendants in the so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case protested over illegal mass searches and detentions of Crimean Tatars on July 7. It is reported by the Crimean solidarity public association.
They unfurled posters with the inscriptions: “A blind terrorist is an indicator of your hopelessness,” “Stop the conveyor of false accusations,” “Stop making terrorists of Crimean Tatars,” “Our faith is stronger than your bars,” “We can’t be broken by a stream of repression,” “Stop deportation to Russian prisons,” “Our people are not terrorists.”
We remind that on July 7, Russian security forces conducted mass searches in the dwellings of Crimean Tatars in the Bakhchisaray, Krasnohvardiiske and Simferopol regions of the occupied Crimea. Seven people were detained. All of them were taken to the FSB in Simferopol. On July 7, the so-called Kyiv District Court of Simferopol sent under house arrest a disabled person of the first group, Oleksandr Syzykov. On July 8, the so-called Kyiv District Court of the occupied Crimea chose a preventive measure for Ismet Ibrahimov, Zekirya Muratov and Vadym Bektemyrov in the form of detention.