On Sunday, June 23, the Crimean Tatar Resource Centre learned that a political prisoner Emil Minasov, previously sentenced to 7 years and 1 month in prison, was released.
Now the man has already returned to his mother in Crimea.
we would like to remind that Emil Minasov was detained for an alleged comment in the social network “Vkontakte”, dated 2015, he was also accused of committing a fight on political grounds.
The man was charged with a number of articles: part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity”), part 4 of article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Intentional infliction of serious harm to health dangerous to human life, committed with the use of an object used as a weapon, causing the death of the victim by negligence”).
As a result, on 7 July 2017, the so-called “Pervomaisky District Court” sentenced Emil Minasov to 1 year and 3 months in a penal colony. Subsequently, on 27 February 2018, the so-called “Nakhimovsky District Court” of Sevastopol sentenced Minasov to 7 years and 6 months in a strict regime colony with restriction of freedom for one year. On 31 July 2019, the so-called “Sevastopol City Court” reduced the sentence to 7 years 1 month.
We emphasize that the CTRC in 2020 filed an application on the case of political prisoner Emil Minasov to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which was accepted for consideration.
We are sincerely glad that the man was finally able to return home!