Judge decides to arrest Chiygoz ‘for indefinite term’ – lawyer
The lawyer of Ahtem Chiygoz, the key defendant in the “case of February 26” filed the motion to challenge the judge, but the court rejected it.
Lawyer Nikolai Polozov wrote this on his Twitter page.
According to Polozov, judge Redko delivered two illegal rulings on the extension of custodial term for Chiygoz.
“In the second ruling, delivered by judge Redko on 4 March 2016, the period of the custodial term was not specified at all, i.e. it was extended for an indefinite term,” Polozov wrote.
Polozov filed two motions to challenge the judge, but both of them were rejected.
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.
February 15, “prosecutor of Crimea” Natalia Poklonskaya filed a lawsuit to ban the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars.
