On Tuesday, November 3, the Southern District Military Court will announce the verdict of the defendants in theso-called Krasnohvardiiske Hizb ut-Tahrir case. About two hundred people came to support the Crimean Tatar political prisoners, including the consul of Ukraine in Rostov-on-Don, Iurii Dovhulia, and civic journalist Nariman Memedeminov. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity public association.
It is noted that the defendants have arrived and are already waiting in the so-called aquarium in T-shirts with the words: “1944 – appointed as traitors”, “2016 – appointed as terrorists” and “Studying religion is not terrorism.”
Also, in Crimea, near the court building, more than 70 Crimean Tatars wore capes with photographs of Arsen Abkhairov, Eskender Abdulhaniev, Rustem Emiruseinov and with the inscriptions: “Prison for reading books”, “A state crime is committed against us.”
“In Crimea, riot police and special forces arrived at the courthouse. Police officers are trying to detain a Crimean Tatar for organizing a mass event – this is a correspondent of the Crimean Solidarity public association and a journalist of the Grani.ru media agency. Police officers approached another young Crimean Tatar – Erfan Bekirov and took him away to the police department”,- the activists said.
We remind that on February 14, 2019, Russian security forces conducted searches in the dwellings of Crimean Tatars in the village of Oktiabrske of Krasnohvardiisk district. Three men were detained and taken to the FSB. Criminal proceedings were instituted against them on suspicion of organizing and participating in the activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization banned in the Russian Federation.
On February 15, the so-called Kyiv District Court of Simferopol arrested Eskender Abdulhaniev, Rustem Emiruseinov and Arsen Abkhairov detained after a search of the Crimean Tatars on suspicion of membership in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, which was banned in Russia.