On Monday, December 28, a so-called court session was to be held in relation to the defendants in the so-called Hizb ut-Tahrir case, who were asked for terms from 13 to 19 years in a maximum security prison. The so-called court session was postponed due to the judge’s illness. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity public association.
“According to the information on The Weather Channel, the air temperature is -2, and the feeling is -9. Despite such weather conditions, we arrived from Crimea. However, the court session did not take place. It was postponed to January 11, 2021, due to illness of the judge. Unfortunately, we received this information already at the beginning of the trial. It is noteworthy that the public prosecutor was not present. He was warned in advance. This situation, I think, is absolutely abnormal. People have come a long way to support their compatriots. They have to work in such realities, but no one despairs. People also continue and will continue to attend the court sessions”,- said lawyer Nazim Sheikhmambetov.
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.