In Kyiv, the former Deputy Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan picketed the SBU, demanding “to stop the pressure on Muslims”
Lawyer Ibrahim Tatiev held a single picket in front of the central office of the Security Service of Ukraine on Vladimirskaya Street, 33 in Kyiv, demanding to stop “pressure on Muslim communities,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
A video of Tatiev’s appeal was posted on Youtube.
Tatiev with posters in Ukrainian, Russian and English picketed the central entrance to the SBU building, periodically changing posters with the inscriptions “SBU is provoking inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflicts”, “SBU=KGB?”, “SBU, stop pouring grist into Russia’s mill” and others .
He also claims that with its actions “the SBU is becoming more and more similar to the FSB of the Russian Federation.”
“My goal is to attract the attention of the country’s civil society to the illegal actions of the SBU against an absolutely democratic, patriotic organization - the Kyiv Islamic Cultural Center,” Tatiev said.
As follows from open sources, Ibrahim Tatiev is an ethnic Azerbaijani, a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. During the presidency of Abulfaz Elchibey in Azerbaijan, Tatiev served as deputy prosecutor general of this country.
Let us recall, as PolitNavigator reported, on March 5, employees of the prosecutor’s office, SBU and police broke into a bookstore on the territory of the Islamic Cultural Center in Kiev on Degtyarevskaya Street and took from there several copies of publications recognized in 2012 by the Primorsky Court of Odessa as cultivating the cult of violence. The searches, which resulted in the identification of the same publications, took place in the apartment of the librarian of the All-Ukrainian Association of Public Organizations “Alraid”, as well as in the premises of the ICC school.
Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine “Ummah” Said Ismagilov and head of the VAOO “Alraid” Seyran Arifov called the search a “provocation”.