Chiygoz, Umerov arrive in Kyiv
As an Ukrinform correspondent reports, a lot of people, including wife of Chyigoz Elmira Ablyalimova, daughter of Umerov Ayshe Umerova and Russian lawyer Nikolai Polozov, welcomed Crimean Tatar activists at the Boryspil airport.
As reported, Akhtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov, who were convicted in the occupied Crimea, were handed over to Turkey on October 25 thanks to agreements reached during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Ukraine.
September 27, the Kremlin-controlled court in Crimea sentenced Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Ilmi Umerov to two years in a settlement colony, banning him from being engaged in public activity for two years. The criminal case against Umerov was instituted in 2016 under article 280.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (public calls for separatism).
September 11, the Russian court in the occupied Crimea found guilty Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Akhtem Chiygoz in organizing mass riots on February 26, 2014. Chiygoz was sentenced to 8 years in a general regime penal colony.
The international and Russian human rights organizations repeatedly demanded to release Umerov, Chiygoz and other Crimean Tatar politicians and public activists. The sentences delivered to the Crimean Tatars by Russian courts were condemned by the US and the European Union.
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