In subzero temperature, without hot drinks: The occupiers once again blocked the Crimean Tatars who went to support political prisoners
On the night of January 12, about 120 Crimean Tatars were illegally detained by the occupiers at the entrance to the Kerch Bridge for about 9 hours without hot drinks, food. Crimean Tatars went from Bakhchisaray, Staryi Krym, Sudak, Belogorsk, Dzhankoi, and Simferopol to Rostov-on-Don to hear the verdict to the participants of the Belogorsk group in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. The police took their documents for inspection, photographed the passports of citizens.
Crimean Solidarity reported about it.
According to the correspondent of Crimean Solidarity, among the detainees were women and men aged 16 to 67. They were allowed to go only in one direction - back to occupied Crimea. Otherwise, the cars are driven into a special settling tank for vehicles.
Source: Crimean solidarity
Source: Crimean solidarity
What is known
- On June 10, 2019, the homes of Crimean Tatars in Alushta, Belogorsk, and Simferopol districts were searched, and Russian security forces detained 8 men: Ruslan Nagaev, Eldar Kantimirov, Ruslan Mesut, Lenur Khalilov, Riza Omerov, Enver Omerov, Ayder Dzhapparov, and Eskender Suleymanov.
- During the hearing in the Southern District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don on December 22, the prosecutor asked for 13 to 19 years in prison for the defendants in the Belogorsk Hizb ut-Tahrir case.
- The wives of political prisoners went to single pickets.
