The person involved in the second Simferopol “Hizb ut-Tahrir case” Ruslan Suleymanov was placed in a psychiatric hospital to undergo forced psychiatric examination in the “Crimean Republican Psychiatric Hospital No. 1”. The Crimean Tatar Resource Center was informed about this by his wife Elzara.
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“We found out that my husband was taken to the psychiatric hospital when we were planning to make the transfer to him in to the pre-trial detention center, we were told that he was taken out. He will be staying in the psychiatric hospital for a month, as it was the case with the other defendants in this case. The lawyer is going to visit him, I think we’ll find out detailed information after the visit, ”said the wife of the political prisoner.
We remind that on March 27, 2019, Russian security forces in the occupied Crimea carried out mass searches in 26 Crimean Tatars' dwellings. Literature was seized from some activists, which, according to Crimean Solidarity, the security forces planted themselves. In addition to books and brochures, people were confiscated phones, tablets, laptops, passports. The servicemen behaved rudely. It is reported that they used physical force against detainees and entered the houses in shoes. Lawyers who arrived at the site of the searches were not allowed to contact the detainees. According to the results of the searches, 20 people were suspected of involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, which is banned in the Russian Federation. On March 28, three more Crimean Tatar activists were detained, in whose dwellings searches were carried out in their absence. On March 27-28, the occupation court arrested all 23 detainees after searches. They chose a preventive measure in the form of detention. Subsequently, all the individuals involved in this so-called case were repeatedly extended the terms of their arrest.