In the trial of Crimean Tatar journalist Remzi Bekirov, human rights activist Riza Izetov and three civic activists: Rayim Aivazov, Farkhod Bazarov and Shaban Umerov, an independent religious scholar has exposed the ‘expert’ used by the FSB in these flawed ‘terrorism’ cases. Spelling and other mistakes are perfectly forgivable for the person who made a transcript of the covertly taped religious discussion from 2016 that form part of the ‘evidence’. When the supposed ‘expert’, Mukhammed Zaripov, repeats all of the transcriber’s mistakes, the suspicion clearly arises that he does not know the subject matter. This is in addition to evidence that the taped discussion is, in fact, a montage with the FSB having refused to provide the original recording.
