A Crimean Tatar was imprisoned after he refused to publicly apologize for the telegram channel of pro-Russian informer Aleksandr Talipov. The Crimean Human Rights Group reports this.
“On August 11, 2023, Crimean Tatar Dliaver Salimov in the city of Eski Qirim, in a conversation with another resident of Crimea, expressed his indignation that his interlocutor was wearing a cap with the Z symbol on his head. Salimov made a verbal threat to his opponent and, using obscene language, demanded to remove his cap with the symbols of the Russian army”,- the report says.
Video evidence was posted in Crimean SMERSH, which belongs to Aleksandr Talipov, after which an administrative case was opened against Salimov under the article petty hooliganism, and the court issued a decision on administrative arrest for 14 days.
“At the same time, representatives of the security forces of the Russian Federation, in oral conversations, several times demanded that Salimov record a public apology for his action, which was planned to be published in the telegram channels Crimean SMERSH and Talipov Online”,- human rights activists say.
Salimov refused to do this and a criminal case was opened against him under Part 1 of Art. 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Threat of murder).
It is alleged that Russian security forces offered Salimov to record an apology again, but he again refused, and the man’s charges were increased: on November 1, the Crimean’s actions were reclassified under Part 2 of Art. 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and was subsequently placed in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in the city of Aqmescit (Simferopol). He faces up to five years in prison.