On Wednesday, May 6, the so-called Supreme Court of the occupied Crimea refused to satisfy the defense’s appeal against the refusal of the Investigative Committee to institute criminal proceedings upon the death of Vedzhie Kashka. Representatives of the Prosecutor’s Office and Investigative Committee continue to argue that Vedzhie Kashka died of old age, and not from forced detention. This was reported by lawyer Nikolai Polozov via his Facebook page.
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“The Crimean Supreme Court today considered the appeal in the case of Vedzhie Kashka and refused to satisfy it. Judge Timur Slezko, just like the judge of the Kyiv District Court of Simferopol, whose decision was appealed, said before leaving for the deliberation room that the old woman died of age and natural causes. However, this did not prevent him from coming up with a decision on the refusal”,- the message said.
We remind that on November 23, 2017, Russian security forces detained a group of activists of the Crimean Tatar national movement – Bekir Degermendzhi, Asan Chapukh, Ruslan Trubach, Kyazim Ametov and Vedzhie Kashka. The latter became ill, she was called an ambulance. On the way to the hospital, 82-year-old Vedzhie Kashka died. According to the official version of doctors, the cause of death was a heart attack. However, her family and a number of public activists question the official version of death.