On Thursday, May 21, the Military Court of Appeal in Vlasikha rejected an appeal by the defense of the defendants in the so-called Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Lenur Khalilov, Ruslan Mesutov and Eldar Kantimirov – to change their preventive measure to not related to detention in a pre-trial detention center. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity public association.
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 Mesutov and Lenur Khalilov.