On Monday, December 21, the Southern District Military Court refused to interrogate 10 witnesses for the defense of political prisoners Enver Omerov, Riza Omerov and Ayder Dzhepparov. In addition, the court completed the investigation of this so-called case. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity public association.
It is noted that the ten remaining witnesses who were supposed to be questioned appeared at the meeting, but the court found this excessive. As a result, only 18 of the 28 witnesses, claimed by the defense, were questioned.
“Nazim Sheikhmambetov filed a number of motions, including the attachment of a linguistic examination, which we ourselves did, the appointment of an additional examination with the involvement of psychologists, because the examination from the case materials does not comply with the norms of the law. A psychologist was not involved. The prosecutor objected. The court refused to involve him”,- said the lawyer Safiie Shabanova.
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.