Fines for four participants of one-man protests were left unchanged

February 5, 2018

According to the public association «Krymskaya Solidarnost» («Crimean Solidarity») on Monday, February 5, the Supreme “Court” of Crimea rejected the appeals on fines imposed on participants of single pickets. Sinaver Mustafaev, Akhtem Aliev, Nariman Dervishev and Edem Bekirov have to pay 10000 rubles fines.

It is reported that five more "court hearings", appointed for today, were postponed for tomorrow, February 6. In particular, the hearings on the case of Luman Bovbekov and Aider Ibragimov were postponed  for tomorrow (13:00 and 13:15) due to the fact that their lawyer Riza Izzetov asked time to study the materials. Also,  the  considerations  on Mamet Lumanov, Enver Azizov and Muslim Zevriev were postponed.

Earlier on February 1, the consideration of appeals on fines for one-man protests started in Crimea. After consideration of 6 complaints, 4 have been rejected by the Supreme "court" of Crimea, the fines for two participants of one-man protests  were reduced from 15000 rubles to 10000.

Reference: on October 14, representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people took part in one-man protests in different cities of Crimea. They urged the Russian authorities of the peninsula to stop repression against the Crimean Tatars. More than 30 people were subjected to illegal detention. Being forced to be fingerprinted, photographed and deprived of the posters all the detainees were released.

On December 18-19, the occupation courts in Crimea  fined more than 70 Crimean Tatar activists for participation in one-man protests on October 14. Everyone was charged with Part 5 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Russia ("Violation of … the procedure for holding … picketing").