“Three of the arrested people could not be present at the meeting as forensic psychiatric examination is currently underway”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
Three of the arrested people could not be present at the meeting, as they are currently undergoing forensic psychiatric examination-they were not brought from the hospital, the lawyer Eden Semedaliaev said.
“Due to (Russian) a law that allows not to deliver the accused to the courtroom, they were unable to participate in the process and express their point of view,” – quotes the Crimean Solidarity Defender.
The lawyer denied the continuation of the arrest, claiming that the investigation had no real grounds for such a preventive measure. However, the court did not take into account the arguments of lawyers.
On the morning of February 5, it became known that Russian security forces in the occupied Crimea detained five Crimean Tatars. At about four in the morning in the Dzhankoy and Kirov districts of the Crimea, the FSB staff came with searches to the houses of Emir Kurtnesirov, Abibula Smetlyaev, Rustem Mustafayev, Mirizal Tazhabayev and Bakhtiyar Ablaev. Upon completion of searches, the Crimeans were taken to the FSB management in Simferopol for investigative actions.
After the annexation began in 2014, the Crimean Tatar population, activists, human rights activists and religious figures are systematically persecuted in Crimea. Crimeans who oppose the Russian authorities regularly undergo searches, arrests and accusations of extremism or terrorist activity.
One of the pressure tools was the use of criminal cases related to the probable links with the prohibited in Russia but legal in Ukraine by Hizb Ut-Tahrir. According to these accusations, dozens of Crimean Tatars received prison terms.