The Taganrog city court and Leninsky district court in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don region on May 13 extended the custody period for seven defendants in the Simferopol’s “Hizb ut-Tahrir case” detained during mass searches carried out in the occupied Crimea March 27.
UNIAN: Russian court extends remand time for Crimean Tatar men
Crimean Tatar political prisoner Ruslan Zeitullaev, the father of three small children, has been imprisoned since January 2015. He and the other three men were the first Crimean Muslims to be arrested in Russian-occupied Crimea in early 2015, and charged with involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is legal in Ukraine.
