On Thursday, April 16, the Military Court of Appeal of the city of Vlasikha in the Moscow Region rejected the appeal against the sentence of the so-called Hizb ut-Tahrir case defendant Enver Seitosmanov, who was sentenced to 17 years in a maximum security colony. It is reported by the Crimean solidarity public initiative.
“As expected, the decision was not in Seitosmanov’s favor and the sentence of the Southern Military District Court was upheld. At the beginning of the trial, Enver requested that listeners be present in the Crimean garrison court of Simferopol, because the court was essentially held in open regime, his request was denied on the basis of the epidemiological situation in the country, the Supreme Court decided not to let anyone else in the court room. Enver Seitosmanov made the last statement, in which he said that the Crimean Tatar Muslims are not terrorists, that all cases are politically motivated”,- said lawyer Emil Kurbedinov.
We remind that on July 4, 2019, the North Caucasian District Military Court extended the detention of Enver Seitosmanov until December 20, 2019.
Earlier, the Russian investigation tightened Seitosmanov’s accusation from the part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (“participation in the activities of a terrorist organization”) to the part 1 (“organization of the activities of a terrorist organization”).
On May 10, 2018, in the village of Orlyne, Sevastopol region, Russian security officials searched the dwelling of two siblings – Ernest Seitosmanov and Enver Seitosmanov. The first was released after interrogation, and Enver was arrested on suspicion of his involvement in the Hizb-ut-Tahrir organization, which was banned in Russia. For more than a year he has been illegally detained. During this period, the right to a fair trial and healthcare access was repeatedly violated against him.