"Dzhemilev's case": at a meeting of the "court" in occupied Crimea, witnesses were questioned about weapons and ammunition

Глянько Катерина
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13:58, 24 September
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On September 24, the occupation Armyansk City Court questioned three witnesses in the case of Crimean Tatar national leader Mustafa Dzhemilev, who is being tried in absentia. According to interrogated witnesses, the requirements for storing weapons and ammunition in Dzhemilev's house were not violated.

The lawyer Nikolay Polozov reported about it to "Crimean solidarity".

The first to be interrogated was Alie Selimova - a relative of the wife of the Crimeantatar leader- Safinar Dzhemileva. She explained that when she often visited Dzhemilev's house in Bakhchisaray, she did not see any weapons or ammunition there, and part of the premises, including the room with the safe with weapons and his office, was always locked. Once she saw a weapon that was taken somewhere for registration, she no longer saw the weapon, how it was stored, she also does not know.

Safinar Dzhemileva’s son Eldar Ebubekirov also confirmed this information in court and said that only Mustafa Dzhemilev had the key to the safe where the weapon was stored. According to him, Dzhemilev's son Khaiser, who was tried in Crimea for murder and sent to serve his sentence after the occupation of the peninsula in a Russian colony, told him that he "got into his father's office through the window, where he took the room keys and gained access to the safe "weapons". The witness added that previously Mustafa Dzhemilev "was prosecuted solely for political reasons".

The third was interrogated Dilyaver Suleymanov, who was a police officer in 2013 in the Bakhchisaray district. He stated that during his work, until 2013, he checked the rules of storing weapons in Dzhemilev's house two or three times. He said that "no violations were found by him." According to him, weapons in disassembled form and ammunition were stored in a special metal box in a separate room, which was restricted to access by unauthorized persons.

The next meeting is scheduled for September 25 at 9:00 am.

What is known

  • In 2013, Khaiser Dzhemilev, Mustafa Dzhemilev's son, was found guilty of the negligent murder of his family friend Fevzi Edemov with his father's gun. After the occupation of Crimea, the "investigative bodies" decided to re-investigate his case. Khaiser was taken from the Simferopol pre-trial detention center to Russia, to the Krasnodar Territory. After that, the Supreme Court of Russia reduced his term of imprisonment by one and a half years by 5 years.
  • In July 2015, the ECtHR ruled in the case of Khaiser Dzhemilev, ordering his release from the pre-trial detention center, and ordered Russia not to take any action that could harm his health. A year later, on November 25, 2016, Khaiser Dzhemilev was released from the colony and went to Kyiv.
  • On April 13, 2020, occupation investigators charged Mustafa Dzhemilev with three articles of the Criminal Code. According to lawyer Nikolay Polozov, the materials of the Ukrainian case of his son Khaiser are used against Dzhemilev. On September 10, 2020, in occupied Crimea, after a month-long break, the trial in the "Mustafa Dzhemilev case" was resumed.