On Thursday, February 1, the consideration of appeals on fines for one-man protests began in Crimea. After the consideration of 6 appeals in the Supreme “court” of Crimea, 4 were rejected, two participants fines were reduced from 15 to 10 thousands.
The fines of Aider Zekeryaev and Rustem Ametov were reduced . As for other four Crimean Tatars, participated in the single pickets on October 14, 2017 against repressions, decisions on fines were upheld, the "judge" rejected the motions and arguments of the defense . In particular, Usein Useinov, Dilyaver Yunusov, Abdumalik Susanov and Rustem Kurkchi will pay 10 thousand rubles fines.
Reference: on October 14, representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people took part in one-man protests in different cities of Crimea. They urged the Russian authorities of the peninsula to stop repressions against the Crimean Tatars. More than 30 people were subjected to illegal detention. Being forcefully fingerprinted, photographed.After giving testimony and taking the posters all the detainees were released.
On December 18-19, the occupation courts in Crimea fined more than 70 Crimean Tatar activists for participation in one-man protests on October 14. Everyone was charged with Part 5 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Russia ("Violation of … the procedure for holding … picketing").