The defendant in the so-called second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Remzi Bekirov, had a fever during the so-called court session in the Southern District Military Court. An ambulance was called for him. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity public association.
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“Remzi himself noted that he had a fever, he felt fatigue. During the measurement of the temperature in the pre-trial detention center, before being sent to the trial, the thermometer showed 37.1. Nevertheless, Bekirov was taken from the detention center to the court to take part in the court session. Lawyer Edem Semedlyaev petitioned to postpone the trial due to the well-being of his client”,- the statement said.
We remind that on March 27, 2019, Russian security forces in the occupied Crimea carried out mass searches in 26 Crimean Tatars' dwellings. Literature was seized from some activists, which, according to Crimean Solidarity, the security forces planted themselves. In addition to books and brochures, people were confiscated phones, tablets, laptops, passports. The servicemen behaved rudely. It is reported that they used physical force against detainees and entered the houses in shoes. Lawyers who arrived at the site of the searches were not allowed to contact the detainees. According to the results of the searches, 20 people were suspected of involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, which is banned in the Russian Federation. On March 28, three more Crimean Tatar activists were detained, in whose dwellings searches were carried out in their absence. On March 27-28, the occupation court arrested all 23 detainees after searches. They chose a preventive measure in the form of detention. Subsequently, all the individuals involved in this so-called case were repeatedly extended the terms of their arrest.