In Crimea defendants in the “Hizb ut-Tahrir” case are accused of “seizing power in Russia”

Crimeans, who are defendants in the “Hizb ut-Tahrir” case, are incriminated of “the forcible seize of power in Russia”.

As reported by the lawyer Emil Kurbedinov on his Facebook page.

“The forcible seize of power in Russia (Article 278 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), this is the Article that all Crimean Tatars and Muslims, who are accused of participation in “Hizb ut-Tahrir”, will be incriminated of. In “addition” an Art. 278 of the Criminal Code will be added to Art. 205.5, which provides for 12 to 20 years of imprisonment!”, – said the lawyer.

“And the ones who are accusing are the ones who, in February 2014, in masks and with sniper rifles, during the night, took stand in administration buildings of the Crimea, those who entered the peninsula on GAZ Tigers and APCs and then announced that we now live in different country”, – said Kurbedinov.

A number of Crimean Tatars are accused of involvement in the “Hizb ut-Tahrir” case.

Representatives of the International Islamic political organization “Hizb ut-Tahir” called its mission to unite all Muslim countries into an Islamic caliphate. However they reject all kinds of terroristic methods to achieve their goals and believe their organization to be unfairly subjected to persecution in Russia.

Russia’s Supreme Court banned “Hizb ut-Tahir” in 2003 and included it in the list of terrorist organizations.

Abdureshit Dzhepparov, coordinator of the Crimean Solidarity project, reported that Crimean political prisoners, defendants in the “Hizb ut-Tahrir” case, are exposed to active moral and physical pressure from the FSB.