Lawyer Alexei Ladin said that the Russian court refused to postpone the debate on the so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case, since the time of the court session according to the regulations is over and “torture by starvation is already beginning.” This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity public association.
“At around 19.00, the presiding judge Zubairov suggested that the last of the defendants, Seyran Saliiev, should have a word in the debate. The defense stated that starvation torture was already beginning and that the time for the court session was over according to the rules”,- the message said.
Moreover, the so-called court session did not end there. Late in the evening, the judge offered to speak in remarks about the debate of the parties, to which the defense agreed, but asked to announce a break until tomorrow in order to collect thoughts and prepare remarks. The court decided to ignore the position of the defense and came to the conclusion that the defense allegedly refuses to reply.
We remind that on October 11, 2017, in the city of Bakhchisaray, the invaders carried out mass searches in 6 dwellings of Crimean Tatars – Marlen Asanov, Seyran Saliiev, Timur Ibrahimov, Memet Belyalov, Ernest Ametov, Server Zakiryaev. Everyone was detained. They were charged under Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Participation in the activities of an organization which, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, is recognized as terrorist”.
On May 21, 2018, Russian security forces raided the dwellings of activists of the Crimean Solidarity public association in the occupied Crimea, as a result of which Server Mustafayev and Edem Smailov were detained. They were also accused of their membership in Hizb ut-Tahrir organisation, which is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.
In February 2019, a criminal case was opened against eight individuals involved in the so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Marlen Asanov, Seyran Saliiev, Timur Ibrahimov, Memet Belyalov, Ernest Ametov, Server Zakiryaev, Server Mustafayev and Edem Smailov (“Violent seizure of power or violent retention of power”).
On March 5, it became known that the two defendants in the so-called second Bakhchysarai Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Timur Ibrahimov and Memet Belyalov – had their charge tightened from part two of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (“participation in the activities of a terrorist organization”) to the part one (“organization of the activities of a terrorist organization”).