On Tuesday, February 20, the Supreme Court of Crimea canceled the fine for the participant of one-man protest Memet Lumanov. The case about the imposing of the fine was returned for finalizing and correcting mistakes in the “court of first instance”, – reports “Crimean solidarity”.
"The Supreme Court satisfied the motion of the defense and makes a decision in the case of M. Lumanov, to reject the decision of the court of first instance in the form of a fine of 10000 rubles, and returns the case to the court of first instance for revision and verifying of mistakes", – stated the activists of the "Crimean solidarity".
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 then. Being fingerprinted, photographed, giving testimony and being deprived of posters all the detainees were released.
On December 18-19, the occupation courts in Crimea fined more than 70 Crimean Tatar activists for single picketsheld 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").
According to the monitoring performed by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, in 2017 the Crimean occupation courts illegally fined about 104 people, mostly Crimean Tatars, a total of more than 5 million rubles.