On Monday, January 4, 52-year-old Crimean Tatar, a defendant in the so-called Tablighi Jamaat case, Renat Suleymanov, previously sentenced to 4 years in a general regime colony and 1 year of probation, was released.
We remind that on October 2, 2017, Russian security forces carried out mass searches in the homes of representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people in Simferopol. As a result of these actions, Arsen Kurbedinov, Renat Suleymanov, Seyran Mustafayev and Talat Abdurakhmanov were detained. They were accused of involvement in the activities of the international religious organization Tablighi Jamaat, banned in the Russian Federation.
On January 22, the so-called Supreme Court of Crimea announced the verdict of the defendants in the so-called Tablighi Jamaat case. Everyone was charged with Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Renat Suleymanov was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment and a year of restraint, Talat Abdurakhmanov was sentenced to two and a half years probation, a year of restraint and two years of probation, and Seyran Mustafayev and Arsen Kubedinov were sentenced to probation.