Crimean Tatar political prisoner transferred to another region

Crimean Tatar Riza Omerov was transferred to IK-9 in Chuvashia from the Minusinsk prison in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Omerov was detained in June 2019. In January 2021, the man was sentenced to 13 years in prison. In addition, his father, Enver Omerov, received 18 years.

According to investigators, in 2017 Enver Omerov organized a cell of the Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned in the Russian Federation, in the Crimean city of Belogorsk, among whose members was his son. The defendants called their criminal case “a link in a large chain of persecution of Crimean Tatars on national and religious grounds.”

Since January 2015, criminal cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir began to be initiated en masse in Crimea, which came under the de facto control of Russia. Party activities are not prohibited in Ukraine. Before the peninsula came under the control of the Russian Federation, activists of the organization were publishing a newspaper, could speak openly in the media and hold mass public events.

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