State Prosecution demanded to appoint Crimean Tatar political prisoner 18 years colony

Another political prisoner of the Crimean Tatar is being held in places of detention for a long time. The prosecutor requested 18 years for Ernest Seitosmanov in a maximum security colony. 

In 1944, our people were also accused of treason, deported and, decades later, rehabilitated. You see, a mistake», - appealed the Crimean Tatar to the participants of the court. In the remand centre, his chronic diseases worsened, he had pains in his stomach.

Ernest Seitosmanov is on trial for his participation in the Islamic political party «Hizb ut-Tahrir», which is banned in Russia but is freely operating in Ukraine and other countries of the world. Since 2015, criminal cases on «Hizb ut-Tahrir» began to be massively initiated in the Crimea.

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