The so-called Prosecutor’s Office of the occupied Crimea demands to cancel the decision of the appellate court on the so-called case of the Crimean Tatar Yunus Masharipov, who was previously sentenced to 4 years in prison and a fine of 110,000 rubles on charges of making and storing explosives. This was reported by lawyer Aleksei Ladin via his Facebook page.
“The appeal, having evaluated the evidence, quite reasonably concluded that the manufacture of explosives by Masharipov was just a figment of the imagination of FSB investigators. In addition, the Appeal agreed with the conclusions of the defense that the compulsory seizure of biological samples entails the inadmissibility of the conclusion of a biological examination”,- the statement said.
We remind that on September 27, 2017, unknown individuals attacked Yalta's Yunus Masharipov. They beat him and then brought him to the FSB administration building in Yalta, where he was interrogated about his frequent trips to mainland Ukraine.
A criminal case was opened against him on charges of manufacturing explosive devices, which, according to the case materials, Yunus Masharipov made himself and transported them to a site on the Sevastopol highway, 50 meters from the Church of the Holy Archangel Michael of the Russian Orthodox Church, located in the village of Oreanda near Yalta. With their help, he allegedly planned to set a forest in Yalta on fire in order to “destabilize the socio-political situation in the region.”
On September 27, 2017, the so-called Yalta Court arrested Masharipov. During the hearing, the defendant claimed he was tortured, but no court reaction followed. Masharipov refused to testify under Article 51 of the Constitution.
In a statement that he transmitted from the Crimea pre-trial detention center in 2017, he said that since 2014 he had been engaged in human rights activities, reporting NGOs about violations of the rights of children, disabled and elder people. After that, Masharipov was beaten, tortured and electrocuted. The activist described in detail in the letter that he had to incriminate himself. In the testimony that, according to Masharipov, was obtained under torture, he indicated that he was “an agent of the Security Service of Ukraine and carried out their tasks.” He was forced to repeat the testimony under camera, while taking several recordings”. He sent the text of the statement to the then president of Ukraine – Petro Poroshenko and the ex-head of the FSB Directorate for the Crimea and Sevastopol Viktor Palahin. On December 1, 2017, this information was published by a number of Ukrainian and Russian sources.
The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Yunus Masharirov as a political prisoner.