UA.TV: Court hearing on Crimean Tatars detained at Red Square taking place in Moscow

By UA.TV.

Published July 29, 2019 at 1:40 pm

A man holds his son and the National flag of Crimean Tatars during a memorial ceremony on the Independence square in Kyiv on May 18, 2019 in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the deportation of the indigenous population of the Crimea by the Soviet Union.

Photo by AFP

The first hearings over the case of Crimean Tatar activists, who rallied on Red Square in support of defendants in the Bakhchisarai Hizb ut-Tahrir case is scheduled today (July 29) in Moscow District Court.

Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international religious and political organization, is legal in Ukraine but was designated as terrorist in Russia in 2003. In June, a Russian court convicted five Crimean Tatars for allegedly belonging to Hizb-ut-Tahrir and sentenced them to 12-17 years imprisonment.