MP from the European Solidarity faction Volodymyr Ariev sent a letter to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Maria Peichinovich-Burich, in which he spoke, within the framework of the campaign MP, Help the Prisoners of the Kremlin!, about the Omerov family, in which all the men – Enver Omerov – father, Riza Omerov – son and Rustem Ismailov – son-in-law – were arrested for far-fetched reasons. Ar’iev called on the international community to recognize men as political prisoners.
“I urge you to facilitate the official recognition of Enver Omerov, Riza Omerov and Rustem Ismailov, whose cases were described in my previous letter, as political prisoners, in order to support their appeal to the Court of Appeal, which will be considered in June, and to insist on their immediate release at the earliest meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe”,- the message says.
We remind that the International 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 political prisoners of Crimea!, in which it called on Ukrainian MPs to take patronage over the Crimeans, who were arrested or persecuted by the Russian occupants.
On February 24, during the round table 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 and took two political prisoners: the defendant in the so-called Yalta Hizb ut-Tahrir case Refat Alimov, as well as Halyna Dovhopola, who is accused of espionage.
On March 10, MP from the European Solidarity faction Volodymyr Ariev also publicly supported the campaign MP, Help the Prisoners of the Kremlin! and took patronage over three political prisoners: over the defendant in the so-called first Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case Rustem Ismailov, as well as over the defendants in the so-called Bilohirsk Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Enver Omerov and Riza Omerov.