Arrest extended for a group of Crimean Tatars

Crimean Tatar activists Enver Krosh, Vilen Temeryanov, Renat Aliyev and Edem Bekirov were extended their detention in pre-trial detention until August 29. Former imam Remzi Kurtnezirov's house arrest was extended until August 4.

Also the day before, until August 2, the term of detention in the pre-trial detention center was increased for Memet Lyumanov, Aziz Azizov, Rustem Osmanov and Mustafa Abduramanov. Criminal cases were opened against Crimean Tatars for participation in a political party in Hizb ut-Tahrir. It is recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia, but at the same time it operates legally in Ukraine, European countries and the world.

Searches of their houses in the Bakhchisarai and Dzhankoy districts of Crimea took place in early March. Lawyer Emil Kurbedinov said that evidence of the activists’ involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir was an audio recording of a conversation in a mosque from 2015. “All these years these people have not been criminally prosecuted and have not posed any danger to society,” he emphasized.

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