Crimean Tatar activist Gulsum Aliieva is still on the list of the so-called “extremists of the Russian Federation” – lawyer

March 30, 2020

Gulsum Aliieva, daughter of the political prisoner Muslim Aliiev, was expelled from the wanted list, but she is still on the list of the so-called “extremists of the Russian Federation.” Lawyer Oleksii Ladin said he intends to achieve Aliieva’s exclusion from the Rosfinmonitoring list. This was reported by the Crimea.Realities media agency.

“In the complaints addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Crimea and the head of the Crimean FSB Directorate, I asked that those responsible for the repeated detention of Gulsum at the administrative border be held accountable. Then I filed a lawyer's request asking the Crimean Interior Minister and the FSB General to explain to me whether Gulsum is wanted and whether it is on the list of extremists and terrorists”,- the lawyer said.

The lawyer noted that his demands were ignored. They answered only the question whether Gulsum is wanted. The defense will appeal against the actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which redirected the complaint of the FSB and the inaction of the latter.

We remind that on July 19, 2018, Russian security officials searched the dwelling of a political prisoner, a so-called Hizb ut-Tahrir case defendant Muslim Aliiev. A protocol was drawn up for his eldest daughter, Gulsum Aliieva. She was charged under article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Inciting ethnic hatred”). On January 25, the so-called Alushta City Court at the request of lawyer Oleksii Ladin terminated the criminal case against Aliieva due to the decriminalization of anti-extremist legislation.

On June 11, 2019, Russian border guards detained the Crimean Tatar activist Gulsum Aliiieva on the administrative border with the occupied Crimea. She was taken to the police station in Armiansk. After drawing up the delivery protocol, she was released. The reason for the detention was that the girl was wanted at the initiative of the FSB investigator Oleksandr Kompaneitsev.