On Wednesday, February 24, during the round table The Crimean Platform: the Path to the De-occupation of Crimea organized by the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, De-occupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, MP from the Voice faction Solomiia Bobrovska publicly supported the campaign of activists of the international movement #LIBERATECRIMEA and the Crimean Tatar Resource Center MP, help the prisoners of the Kremlin! She stated that she took under her guardianship two political prisoners: a defendant in the so-called Yalta Hizb ut-Tahrir case Refat Alimov, and Halyna Dovhopola, who is accused of espionage.
MP Solomiia Bobrovska stressed the importance of this campaign and called on her parliamentary colleagues to join the initiative and take patronage over other political prisoners in the Kremlin.
Earlier, the International Civil Society Movement for the De-occupation of Crimea and Solidarity with the Crimean Tatar People #LIBERATECRIMEA within the framework of the international campaign Atalık (Godfather) launched the campaign MP, Help the Crimean Political Prisoners, in which it called on Ukrainian parliamentarians to take patronage over the Crimeans who were arrested or persecuted by the Russian invaders.
We remind that Refat Alimov was detained by Russian security forces and accused of participation in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization banned in the Russian Federation in April 2016. He was charged with Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organizing the activities of a terrorist organization and participating in it). Later they began to impute to him Article 278 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Forcible seizure of power or forcible retention of power). On November 12, 2019, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don announced the sentence to the political prisoner. The invaders sentenced Refat Alimov to 8 years in a strict regime colony.
Halyna Dovhopola, a 64-year-old resident of Sevastopol, was detained by the invaders in 2020. The Russian authorities claim that she was recruited by the Ukrainian special services and, on the instructions of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, purposefully carried out the collection of classified information of a military nature. A citizen of Ukraine was charged with committing a crime under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and illegally taken to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center.
The international movement #LIBERATECRIMEA and the Crimean Tatar Resource Center call on the people's deputies of Ukraine to support the campaign MP, help the Crimean political prisoners !