On Wednesday, March 25, a meeting was held in the Kiev district “court” on the “Hizb ut-Tahrir case”, during which the defendants in the “case” got their their measure of restraint extended. Enver Omerov, Riza Omerov and Ayder Dzhapparov will remain in jail until May 5, 2020. This is reported by the public initiative “Crimean solidarity”.
"The meeting was held behind closed doors due to the quarantine, which was introduced in the courts on March 18, 2020 by the relevant decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Lawyers Bernovskaya, Shabanova and Rustemov represented the defense," the statement said.
We remind that on June 10, Russian security forces conducted mass searches of the dwellings of Crimean Tatars in Alushta, Bilohirsk and Simferopol. As a result, 8 people were detained on suspicion of their membership in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization banned in the Russian Federation. On June 10 and 11, the so-called Kyiv District Court of Simferopol chose a preventive measure in the form of detention until August 5 for the Crimean Tatars detained after searches – Riza Omerov, Enver Omerov, Ayder Dzhepparov, Eskender Suleymanov, Ruslan Nagaev, Eldar Kantimirov, Ruslan Mesutov and Lenur Khalilov.
On October 31, the so-called Kyiv District Court of Simferopol extended the term of arrest until February 5, 2020 to Lenur Khalilov, Ruslan Nagaev, Ruslan Mesutov, Eldar Kantimirov, Enver Omerov, Riza Omerov and Ayder Dzhepparov.