Occupants extend preventive measure for Crimean activists for six months

On October 21, the Southern District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don held a preliminary hearing in the criminal case of Crimean Tatar activists and civilian journalists Memet Lumanov, Rustem Osmanov, Aziz Azizov and Mustafa Abduramanov. The invaders extended the preventive measure for the activists for another six months.

This was reported by Crimean Solidarity with reference to lawyer Edem Semedlyayev.

The post says that the court hearing was held on the initiative of the defense, which filed a number of motions.

"One of these motions was to return the entire criminal case to the prosecutor, because there are many unclear wording, such as "in an unspecified place", "at an unspecified time". There are a lot of such wording in the indictment," Edem Semedlyayev noted.

It is noted that the occupiers did not satisfy this petition and accepted the case file for proceedings. The court also granted the request of the invaders' prosecutor to extend the preventive measure for Memet Lumanov, Rustem Osmanov, Aziz Azizov and Mustafa Abduramanov for six months. The court decided to transfer the Crimean Tatars from the Crimean SIZO-2 in Simferopol to SIZO-1 in Rostov-on-Don.

The next hearing is scheduled for November 5.

Володимир Шкаєв