In Crimea, riot police stopped a rally of extremist sympathizers
Security forces detained in Crimea supporters of previously convicted members of the extremist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir, who staged an unauthorized rally near the building of the Crimean Garrison Military Court in Simferopol.
The Ukrainian organization "Crimean Solidarity," which sympathizes with extremists, reported this on its blog, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The reason for the protest was a hearing taking place today in Simferopol via videoconference with the Military Court of Appeal in Vlasikha regarding the case of members of the so-called "Red Guard Group" of extremists detained in February 2019.
Earlier, the Southern District Military Court sentenced the defendants – Rustem Emiruseinov to 17 years in prison, Eskender Abdulganiyev to 12, and Arsen Abkhairov to 13 years. Police warned the assembled supporters of the detainees about their violation of anti-COVID regulations, then detained them and took them to the Central Police Station.
“All of them are accused of belonging to the political Islamic party Hizb-ut-Tahrir, banned in Russia, which was included in the list of terrorists by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in 2003,” the Crimean Solidarity report says.
In Crimea , riot police stopped a rally by extremist sympathizers.