The so-called Sevastopol City Court of the occupied Crimea rejected the defense’s appeal against the extension of the preventive measure to political prisoner Yashar Shykhametov, who was detained on February 17 after mass searches. He will remain in jail until April 15.
We remind that on February 17, Russian security officials conducted seven searches in the houses of the Crimean Tatars in Bilohirsk, Bakhchysarai, Simferopol, Sevastopol and the Sovietsk districts of the occupied Crimea. The detainees are charged with Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The so-called Kyiv District Co