The Southern District Court in Rostov-on-Don completed the so-called judicial investigation in the so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case without asking the lawyers of the political prisoners if they had any evidence in this case. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity public association.
“The court ended the judicial investigation without asking the defense side if they had any evidence in this case. I had several requests to investigate a number of materials. In particular, I planned to examine a number of documents that confirmed that a preliminary investigation had been carried out with violations of the rights of our clients. This leads to the recognition of the inadmissibility of a number of evidence of the prosecution”,- said lawyer Lilia Hemedzi.
It is noted that the court session on the so-called case is scheduled for August 31, despite the fact that two more court sessions were to be held this week.
We remind that on October 11, 2017, in the city of Bakhchisaray, the invaders carried out mass searches in 6 dwellings of Crimean Tatars – Marlen Asanov, Seiran Saliiev, Timur Ibrahimov, Memet Belyalov, Ernest Ametov, Server Zakiryaev. Everyone was detained. They were charged under Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Participation in the activities of an organization which, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, is recognized as terrorist”.
On May 21, 2018, Russian security forces raided the dwellings of activists of the Crimean Solidarity public association in the occupied Crimea, as a result of which Server Mustafayev and Edem Smailov were detained. They were also accused of their membership in Hizb ut-Tahrir organisation, which is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.
In February 2019, a criminal case was opened against eight individuals involved in the so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Marlen Asanov, Seiran Saliiev, Timur Ibrahimov, Memet Belyalov, Ernest Ametov, Server Zakiryaev, Server Mustafayev and Edem Smailov (“Violent seizure of power or violent retention of power”).
On March 5, it became known that the two defendants in the so-called second Bakhchysarai Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Timur Ibrahimov and Memet Belyalov – had their charge tightened from part two of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (“participation in the activities of a terrorist organization”) to the part one (“organization of the activities of a terrorist organization”).