The Georgian Prosecutor's Office accused the opposition television channel TV Pirveli of spreading "further disinformation" after airing a report about Tamar Bezhuashvili, the prosecutor in the case of the attempted storming of the presidential palace. The office stated that this is the second time in the past six weeks that the channel has produced material related to the business activities of the prosecutor's father and is "completely unfoundedly" attempting to link it to her professional work.
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the sentence of three Crimean Tatar political prisoners - Enver and Riza Omerov and Aider Dzhapparov. They will spend 18, 13 and 17 years in prison respectively.
The defendants called their criminal case “a link in a large chain of persecution of Crimean Tatars on national and religious grounds.” The defense insisted on the next interrogation of hidden witnesses; previously this had happened in gross violation of criminal law.
According to investigators, in 2017, Enver Omerov and Dzhapparov organized a cell of the Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned in the Russian Federation, in the territory of the Crimean city of Belogorsk, which included Enver Omerov’s son, Riza.
Since January 2015, criminal cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir began to be initiated in Crimea, which came under the de facto control of Russia. In Ukraine, the party’s activities are not prohibited; activists of the organization published a newspaper, could speak openly in the media and hold mass public events.