Court of occupied Crimea takes four Crimean residents into custody
The human rights activists believe that a new wave of reprisals against the Crimean Tatars has started in the Russian-occupied Crimea.
This is reported by the Center for Civil Liberties activist Oleksandra Romantsova.
She informs that at least 12 Crimean Tatars were detained after the mass searches in Yalta, Bakhchisarai, Alushta, villages Krasnokamyanka, Holmivka, Viktorivka on February 11-12, 2016.
The day before, so-called “prosecutor” of Crimea Natalia Poklonska reported that the criminal case under Part 1 and Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Russian Federation (“organization of activities of a terrorist organization and participation in it”) had been instituted in Crimea. The security forces have already arrested four members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir “terrorist organization.”
The human rights activists remind that the Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ukraine is the Islamic political movement, engaged in religious, political and educational activities. The organization operated freely as it is not an extremist organization, according to the view of the Western democracies.
February 12, the Kyivsky District Court of Simferopol held a hearing on the case of the Crimean Tatars, detained a day earlier, Emir-Usein Kuku, Enver Bekirov, Muslim Aliyev and Vadim Siruk. The court ruled to take them into custody until April 8, 2016.
The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine demands to immediately stop political repressions against the Ukrainian citizens and release them.
As reported, about ten searches in the houses of the Crimean Tatars took place in Crimea on February 12.
