For the third time in a year: the occupiers will again try the Crimean Tatar newspaper "Kirim"

The illegal "Simferopol District Court" in Crimea will consider a case on an administrative offense against the independent Crimean Tatar newspaperQirim.

As the Crimean Process NGO has found out , the occupiers have brought new charges against the newspaper as a legal entity for abusing freedom of information. That is, the publication is accused of not marking organizations recognized as "foreign agents" in the text. The text describing the biography of the famous Soviet human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva emphasized her cooperation in the late 1970s with Radio Liberty and Voice of America, which, according to the Russian authorities, should always be mentioned only with a note that these organizations are recognized as foreign agents.

This will be the third trial in the last six months. The hearing is scheduled for October 16.

Earlier, the occupation court fined Qirim for publishing a report by the UN Secretary General. An excerpt of his report concerned the humanitarian situation in Crimea. It referred to unjustified detentions and beatings of people. The Qirim article also provided information about the torture of a Crimean Tatar in Kherson and the harsh conditions of the pre-trial detention center No. 2 in Simferopol. In this article, the operative saw"the dissemination of false information under the guise of reliable information, which created a threat of harm to the life and health of citizens, property, the threat of massive violation of public order and public safety."

Before that, the 68-year-old editor-in-chief of the Qirim newspaper Bekir Mamutov was charged with discrediting the Russian Federation and spreading false information under the guise of reliable information. Center "E" investigator V. Korenivskyi noted that Mamutov published two articles on the newspaper's website. One of them was about why Crimeans should not participate in the Russian special operation on the territory of Ukraine. According to the operative, with this article, Bekir Mamutov "disseminated information aimed at discrediting the use of the Russian Armed Forces to protect the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens, to maintain international peace and security within the framework of demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine." Center "E" accused Mamutov of expressing disagreement with the "SVO".

In addition, the illegal court of Crimea fined lawyer Emil Kurbedinov for publishing in a telegram. Before that, the occupiers on the peninsula illegally tried a resident of Nova Kakhovka, Victoria Bakalets, who called on locals not to go to the illegal Russian referendum in September 2022 and accused Russians of numerous war crimes committed in Ukraine.

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