On Tuesday, December 8, Lenur Khalilov, a political prisoner involved in the so-called Hizb ut-Tahrir case, turned 53 years old. He is forced to celebrate his second birthday in a pre-trial detention center, where he was illegally placed by the occupation authorities of Crimea. The team of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center sincerely congratulates Lenur Khalilov on his birthday! We wish you speedy release and reunification with your family and loved ones, good health, patience, unbending will and prosperity!
We remind that on June 10, Russian security forces conducted mass searches in the dwellings of Crimean Tatars in Alushta, Bilohirsk and Simferopol. As a result, 8 people were detained on suspicion of their involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization banned in the Russian Federation. On June 10 and 11, the so-called Kyiv District Court of Simferopol chose a preventive measure in the form of detention until August 5 for the Crimean Tatars detained after searches – Riza Omerov, Enver Omerov, Ayder Dzhepparov, Eskender Suleymanov, Ruslan Nagaev, Eldar Kantimirov, Ruslan Mensutov and Lenur Khalilov. Subsequently, all the defendants in the so-called case were repeatedly extended the terms of their arrest.