Court of occupied Crimea dismissed appeal against arrest of Kurbedinov
The Kremlin-controlled so-called Supreme Court of Crimea upheld the decision of the court of first instance, which sentenced lawyer Emil Kurbedinov to an administrative arrest for a term of 10 days.
As reported by lawyer Mykola Polozov in the comment made to Krym.Realiyi on February 1.
“The court consulted for a long time, for about one and a half – nearly two hours, but it has not led to positive results, they left the same arrest for a term of 10 days”, – said lawyer.
According to Polozov, the case will most likely be sent to the European Court “since the blatant violation of lawyer’s rights and pressure on defenders in the Crimea should not be left without proper assessment of independent institutions and, unfortunately, Russian justice does not belong to them”.
Prior to this, lawyer reported that Kurbedinov was not brought to the court hearing of the appeal.
As a reminder, on January 26, Emil Kurbedinov was detained by the officers of the Center E (Center for Combating Extremism) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. On the same day, according to the decision of the court he was sentenced to an administrative arrest for a term of 10 days for alleged distribution of extremist materials. Illegal searches were conducted in his house and office and files, containing advocate secrets, were seized. Human rights defenders fear that the administrative proceeding of Emil Kurbedinov could escalate into criminal proceeding and appeal to the official Ukraine and the world to respond as active as possible to the repression against one of the few independent lawyers, who are still working in the Crimea.
Among the defendants of Emil Kurbedinov – Ilmi Umerov, Mykola Semena, Emir-Useyin Kuku and other defendants in the cases of Crimean Muslims and so-called cases of saboteurs (particularly, Redvan Suleymanov).
During the week, Ukrainian public organizations, Freedom House, Russian lawyers, representative of the European Court and other human rights institutions made statements demanding the release of Kurbedinov.
