Lawyer Nikolai Polozov posted his letter on Facebook.

“I am being accused of an act that the Criminal Code refers to as crimes against the principles of the constitutional order and the security of the state. However, it is clear to me that a greater danger for a state that does not adhere but at least declares democratic values is a false investigation and biased justice, which neglects the principles of impartiality and objectivity", - Dzhelyal wrote.

According to him, the people who are supposed to defend the constitutional order of the Russian Federation are pushing the country into the abyss of lawlessness.

"But they are trying me, a person who condemns Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the occupation of Crimea", - the political prisoner said.

“Russia will ensure its security only when it condemns the real culprits", - he stated.

Source: facebook.com/nikolai.polozov

What is known

• On January 25, the occupying Supreme Court of Crimea rejected an appeal by the defence against the arrest of Nariman Dzhelyal, deputy head of the Crimean Tatar People's Mejlis, and Crimean Tatar activists Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, arrested in connection with a pipeline sabotage case in occupied Crimea. They will remain in jail until at least February 23. The US Embassy condemned the decision.
• The occupiers in Crimea accused  Nariman Dzhelyal, as well as  Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, of the following charges: participation in sabotage, blowing up a gas pipeline near the village of Perevalnoye, smuggling an explosive device, causing damage in the amount of 105,000 rubles (38.6,000 hryvnias) and undermining Russia's defence capabilities.
• On September 3 and 4, five Crimean Tatars were detained in Simferopol and Yevpatoria - businessman Eldar Adamanov, brothers Aziz and Asan Akhtemov, Shevket Useinov, and deputy head of the Crimean Tatar People's Mejlis Nariman Dzhelyal on suspicion of blowing up a gas pipeline in the village of Perevalne.
• On September 6, the occupying "court" arrested the detained Crimean Tatars.
• On September 22, Nariman Dzhelyal’s charges were intensified by reclassifying them as sabotage in an organized group which is punishable by 12 to 20 years in prison. In addition, the occupiers accused him of illegal acquisition, transfer and storage of explosives in an organized group.
• On October 7, Dzhelyal was forcibly sent to the 15th department of the Crimean Republican Psychiatric Hospital No. 1.
• On November 1, the defence appealed against the closed-door "trial" in the Dzhelyal case.
• Nariman Dzhelyal told his lawyer about the conditions of detention in the psychiatric hospital in occupied Simferopol.
• On November 8, Nariman Dzhelyalov was charged with "smuggling an explosive device."
• On December 3, the occupation court in Crimea rejected an appeal against the arrest of Nariman Dzhelyal.

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