The court gave Marlen Mustafayev, a political prisoner sentenced to 17 years in prison, only 15 days to get acquainted with 10 volumes of the case, which contains more than 7300 pages!
On November 30, 2022, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don criminally sentenced Ukrainian citizen Marlen Mustafayev in the so-called Hizb-ut-Tahrir case to a multi-year prison term. After his conviction, he was transferred to a pre-trial detention center in Novocherkassk (Rostov Region), where he remains until the appeal against the verdict of the court of first instance, filed by his lawyer, is considered.
A few days ago, Marlen was given the introduction materials in electronic form, which are arranged in 10 volumes and have more than 7,300 pages, as well as several hours of audio recordings. For review, he was given a small tablet with a diagonal of 8 inches and was given only 15 days from the date of issue of the tablet.
The 15 days provided for familiarization with the case materials is an unrealistically short period: if you read the case materials continuously for 16 hours a day, leaving only 8 hours for other things (sleep, food, prayer, hygiene procedures). To fully familiarize yourself with all the sheets of the case, you need to read at least 30 pages per hour! And that’s not counting the fact that you need to listen to several hours of audio recordings of testimonies and court hearings, in which Marlen did not participate.
You also need to take into account the need to periodically charge the tablet from the network for several hours, as well as the small screen size of the tablet and poor lighting in the pre-trial detention center cell will not allow you to read continuously for 16 hours a day.
All these circumstances once again clearly demonstrate that there is no justice in Russia and Russian “Themis” is only a punitive machine in the service of Putin’s totalitarian regime, the purpose of which is to destroy any manifestations of freedom in the territory of the occupied Crimea and other occupied territories of Ukraine!
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center constantly and systematically defends the rights of Ukrainian political prisoners and calls on Ukrainian state institutions to intensify their work to involve the leaders of world states in the process of releasing political prisoners illegally detained and held on the territory of Russia and temporarily occupied territories.