On 13 September, the Supreme Court in Moscow left unchanged the sentence for the defendants of the second Bakhchisarai case of the ‘Hizb ut-Tahrir case’ Ernest Ibragimov and Oleg Fedorov. This was reported by ‘Crimean Solidarity’ public association.
Before the court hearing, human rights activists managed to communicate with the defendant in the case of Ernest Ibragimov, who told about the sad conditions of his detention.
Recall that on 17 February 2021, Russian security forces conducted seven searches in the homes of Crimean Tatars in Belogorsk, Bakhchisarai, Simferopol, Sevastopol and the Soviet district of the occupied Crimea. The detainees are incriminated with Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The Kyiv district ‘court’ and the Leninsky district ‘court’ elected a measure of restraint in the form of detention for the detained Crimean Tatars – Ernest Ibragimov, Timur Yalkabov, Azamat Eyupov, Oleg Fedorov, Lenur Seidametov and Yashar Shikhametov.
On 8 July 2022, Ernest Ibragimov and Oleg Fedorov were sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment in a strict regime colony.