Re-sentenced Crimean imam returns home

Former head of the independent Muslim community "Alushta <b>Lenur Khalilov</b>, persecuted by the occupation authorities of Crimea, has returned home after visiting law enforcement agencies.

This was reported by Krym.Realii with reference to the prisoner's lawyer Emil Kurbedinov .

In late August, the Isakogorsk District Court of Arkhangelsk released the Crimean Tatar from further serving his sentence due to a serious illness, but the prosecutor's office appealed this decision, demanding to send him back to the colony.

This is a man who served 18 years in prison in the case of the 'Alushta group' of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the Arkhangelsk Penal Colony No. 1. He was previously diagnosed with a number of serious illnesses, including primary liver cancer with lymph node metastases, chronic hepatitis C and grade II hypertension.

Lawyer Emil Kurbedinov noted that the main argument of the prosecutor's office, voiced in the regional court, was that the man was a ''particularly dangerous criminal'', and the court of first instance allegedly ''did not take this fact into account''.

Currently, according to Kurbedinov, the man's detention can take place only after the FSIN (Federal Penitentiary Service) receives the original appeal ruling from the Arkhangelsk Regional Court. ''Until then, Khalilov cannot be detained under the current procedure. He has visited the relevant authorities and returned home for now,'' - the lawyer explained.

Let us recall, Intent wrote that in Crimea Russian security forces re-detained <b>Lenur Khalilov</b>, the former head of the independent Muslim community "Alushta".

The re-detention took place by the decision of the Arkhangelsk Regional Court of the Russian Federation, which canceled the decision on the early release of Khalilov. The hearing was held in the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Simferopol via videoconference.

The lawyer Emil Kurbedinov called the court's decision, adopted on October 13, illegal, unreasonable and dishonorable. According to the Russian prosecutor, the conclusions of the medical commission that Khalilov cannot be kept in a penitentiary institution on a general basis, ''do not indicate the absolute necessity of his release''.

Катерина Глушко