Court rejects all motions of lawyers in ‘case of February 26’
In Simferopol, Crimea, the judges, considering the so-called “case of February 26”, have rejected all the motions filed by the lawyers.
Nikolai Polozov, the lawyer of Deputy Chairman of Mejlis Ahmet Chiygoz, posted this on Twitter.
According to him, the lawyers filed the motions to admit a sister of one of the defendants Mustafa Degermendzhi as a lawyer, to carry out the audio recording of the court hearings and to challenge the prosecutors. However, the court rejected all the motions despite the fact that even the prosecutors were not against the audio recording.
As reported, defendant in the “case of February 26” Ahtem Chiygoz faces 8-15 years in prison. Ali Asanov, Mustafa Degermendzhi, as wells as a number of defendants in the case not under arrest – Eskender Kantemirov, Eskender Emirvaliev, Arsen Yunusov – face a sentence of up to 8 years in prison. Earlier, defendants in the case and Talat Yunusov and Eskender Nebiev, pleaded guilty, were sentenced to 2.5 years of probation.
They are accused of participating in riots near the building of the Crimean Parliament on February 26, 2014. Then, two protesters were killed in clashes between supporters and opponents of the Russian authorities.
