On Thursday, November 7, the Kyiv District “court” of Akmesdzhit (Simferopol) found lawyer Rustem Kiamilev guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. This is reported by the Crimean Solidarity.<\/p>\n
The “court” sentenced him to 10 days of administrative arrest.<\/p>\n
In addition, the “court” imposed a fine of 50 thousand rubles for the offense under Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center strongly condemns these illegal actions of the Russian security forces and emphasizes that Rustem Kamilev is being persecuted because of his legal activities, and these articles are just a pretext.<\/p>\n
The persecution, pressure and obstruction of the activities of an
\nindependent lawyer are a violation of both Ukrainian and Russian
\nlegislation on the legal profession, as well as the Basic Principles
\non the Role of Lawyers adopted by the United Nations in 1990. These principles impose an obligation on governments not to subject lawyers to prosecution and judicial, administrative, economic or other sanctions for any action taken in accordance with recognized professional duties, norms and ethics, or to threats of such prosecution and sanctions.<\/p>\n
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center demands the immediate release of lawyer Rustem Kiamilev and to refrain from further persecution of independent lawyers who carry out their professional activities in the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea, as well as lawyers acting in the interests of political prisoners of Crimea in Russia.<\/p>\n
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center calls on the international community to increase pressure on the Russian Federation and the occupation authorities of Crimea to stop political persecution and persecution in connection with the professional activities of lawyers, as well as to impose personal sanctions on those involved in human rights violations in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Thursday, November 7, the Kyiv District “court” of Akmesdzhit (Simferopol) found lawyer Rustem Kiamilev guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. This is reported by the Crimean Solidarity. The “court” sentenced him to 10 days of administrative arrest. In addition, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n