On Friday, February 2, the ‘Supreme Court’ of Crimea rejected an appeal against the arrest of the Crimean Tatar activist Ismail Ramazanov. Before this, his house was searched, he was detained and arrested for 30 days. On the same day he stated at the “court” that he had been beaten by FSB officers.
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Reference: on January 23, Russian law enforcers conducted regular searches in the houses of representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people in the village Novy Mir of Simferopol district, in the city of Stary Krym and Primorskoe village of Feodosiya district. As a result, Ismail Ramazanov was detained. He was charged with propaganda of extremism: dissemination of information that incited ethnic hatred and inter-religious hatred. According to the prosecution, he allegedly spread the information via Zello Internet radio.
On January 24, the Simferopol "district court" of Crimea jailed the detained yesterday after the search Ismail Ramazanov for 30 days. During the court hearing, he could hardly stand on his feet. At the "court" Ramazanov stated that FSB officers had beaten him. The defense motions were rejected, including that one about calling an ambulance.