Crimean religious figure Raif Fevziev, who is being held in Pre-trial Detention Center No.1 of Simferopol, extended the arrest for six months before being transferred to Rostov-on-Don (Russia).
Crimean Solidarity wrote about it on Facebook, according to Ukrinform.
"A preliminary hearing on the Hizb ut-Tahrir case against Imam Raif Fevziev from Simferopol District was held in Pre-trial Detention Center No.1 via video link with the Southern District Military Court. Lawyer Emil Kurbedinov said that the court extended his preventive measure for six months," the report says.
According to Kurbedinov, the prosecutor accompanied his request to extend the arrest for six months with "regular phrases" that the defendant could escape, influence witnesses and destroy evidence. The judge granted the prosecutor's request.
At the same time, the court rejected the defense's request to apply the Fourth Geneva Convention to the religious figure, which means that it is impossible to transfer him from the territory of Crimea, as well as that he should be tried by a politically independent court.
According to Kurbedinov, the only reason why his client is being held in a pre-trial detention center is that he "refused to slander himself and other political prisoners."
The next meeting is scheduled for February 9.
As reported, in Crimea, the Russian occupiers have completed a pre-trial investigation as for the religious figure Raif Fevziev, his "case" is being sent to the Russian military court in Rostov-on-Don, where, according to the imam's wife, Fevziev should be transferred in the near future.
Raif Fevziev, 41, is an imam (religious figure) in the Simferopol district of Crimea, an activist, and a father with many children.
On August 17, 2021, after searches, security forces detained five people. In the Nakhimov District of Sevastopol, FSB officers arrested activists Rustem Murasov and Rustem Tairov, in the Balaklavsky District of Sevastopol – Dzhebbar Bekirov, in the Bakhchisarai district – Zaur Abdullayev, in Simferopol – Imam Raif Fevziev. All those arrested systematically attended politically motivated trials, supported the families of political prisoners, and organized mass events in their villages in support of the Crimean Tatars persecuted by the occupier's authorities.
On September 1, 2021, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova said that the invaders were holding Ukrainian political prisoner Imam Raif Fevziev in the Simferopol pre-trial detention center "in inhumane conditions and under constant video surveillance."