Russia has completed a wave that is new of queries and arrests in occupied Bakhchysarai, this time around focusing on two sons of the celebrated Crimean Tatar historian and A television ATR presenter, now staying in mainland Ukraine, who has got supplied coverage of governmental repression under Russian career. As with every such ‘operations’ throughout the last couple of years, it is an obvious assault on civic activists and reporters mixed up in human legal rights effort Crimean Solidarity and try to terrorize other Crimean Tatars into making Crimea or dropping quiet about persecution along with other legal rights violations.
Armed and frequently masked officers resulted in at seven domiciles in the beginning 11 March, undertaking a search that is illegal of a house which is not presently occupied. All the lawyers who arrived to represent the men were prevented from being present during the search in typical breach of procedure. In a minumum of one situation, ‘prohibited literature’ had been planted by the FSB, that was a task they obviously didn’t desire attorneys recording.
That certain of this aims associated with activities on 11 March ended up being terrorization is obvious through the gratuitous wide range of queries and domiciles targeted. Crimean Solidarity coordinator Lutfiye Zudiyeva describes that a search had been carried https://brightbrides.net/review/waplog from the home of Crimean Solidarity civic journalist Seydamet Mustafayev, although their title just isn’t incorporated into this new ‘case’. Not merely did the enforcement officers carry on with all the search although Mustafayev himself had not been in the home, however they took their senior dad, Enver Mustafayev away. They’ve since released him.
The FSB had been similarly well conscious that ATR presenter Seytumer Seytumerov had kept Crimea following persecution in 2018 and they carried out the search regardless that they would only find his elderly mother at home, yet.
Four Crimean Tatars have now been arrested: the 2 sons of historian Shurki Seytumorv – Seytumer Seytumerov (also a historian) along with his sibling Osman Seytumerov, the two men’s uncle Rustem Seytmemetov and Amet Suleymanov. Based on Zudiyeva, the FSB have actually, yet again, targeted activists that are civic their family members.
Suleymanov is just a Crimean Solidarity activist and journalist (streaming information regarding arrests and governmental studies on the online). He’s got recently limited such activism that is civic but just as a result of extremely serious heart related illnesses. He is suffering from chronic rheumatic heart disease, aortic insufficiency, coronary artery condition along with other conditions. Many of these imply that Russia is putting their life in danger through the activities on 11 March and, still more, his imprisonment within the intolerable conditions regarding the Simferopol SIZO remand prison.
Amet Suleymanov together with his three sons – Ibrahim (now 11), Mukhammad (8) and Mansur (4)
Lawyer Edem Semedlyaev, who had been avoided from attending the search of Seytumer Seytumerov, says that “as usual, the search had been for forbidden literature and technology”. ‘Search’ must be recognized really loosely because the FSB increasingly brings the literary works together with them, and then, when you look at the lack of solicitors, claims to have ‘found’ it. Suleymanov’s wife reports, for instance, that the officers planted two books that are new specifically invest book covers, regarding the desk where kids do their schoolwork.
It is vital to stress that the FSB are actually only thinking about written material or computer technology, and barely also imagine become shopping for tools or comparable. It is of major importance because the four guys arrested on 11 March face severe jail sentences under Russia’s ‘terrorism legislation’.
The brothers, Seytumer and Osman Seytumerov, Rustem Seytmemetov and Amet Suleymanov are faced with participation in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a pan-islamist that is peaceful that is appropriate in Ukraine & most other nations, and which just Russia has selected to call ‘terrorist’. No justification has ever been given to the extremely secretive ruling by Russia’s Supreme Court in 2003 to label Hizb ut-Tahrir ‘terrorist’, yet these charges under Article 205.5 § 2 of Russia’s unlawful rule carry a sentence of from 10 to two decades’ imprisonment.
From left Seytumer Seytumerov along with his brother Osman
ATR presenter Seytumer Seytumerov is, when it comes to minute, the person that is only the FSB want to label the ‘organizer’ of a Hizb ut-Tahrir team (Article 205.5 § 1) using this possibly holding a life phrase. Seytumerov is luckily safely in mainland Ukraine, using this regrettably and therefore the FSB could make an effort to pin ‘organizer’ charges on some other person as well – essentially with regards to their documents, and also for the bonuses, as well as promotions, that such Hizb ut-Tahrir prosecutions are known to bring them.
There’s absolutely no crime that is recognizable and none will become necessary, considering that the FSB have actually their ‘experts’ prepared to find ‘proof’ of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir in innocuous spiritual conversations. In addition they plant ‘evidence’ by means of publications related to Hizb ut-Tahrir and utilize very questionable ‘secret witnesses’ whose testimony may not be confirmed. Since 2017, Russia happens to be quite freely utilizing such‘terrorism that is fake studies against civic activists and reporters in occupied Crimea, in addition to arrests on 11 March bring to 70 the amount of males either ‘convicted’ after fatally problematic studies on such fees, or dealing with huge sentences. Another seven children* have experienced their fathers removed in handcuffs. Every one of the guys have actually, or will soon be announced prisoners that are political the Memorial Human Rights Centre. The latter has repeatedly noticed that Russia isn’t just breaching a unique legislation by imprisoning males for non-existent terrorism, it is additionally breaking law that is international illegally using its repressive legislation in occupied Crimea.
* Amet Suleymanov has three sons: Ibrahim (b. 16.07.2008); Mukhammad (18.10.2011) and Mansur (11.02.2016). Seytumer Seytumerov includes a two-month son that is old Suleyman (b. 14.01.2020), while Rustem Seytmemetov has three kids – Said, who’s 12, Bakhiye (b. 02.10.2013) and Beyan (27.08.2017).