The former leader of the extremist organization “Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people”, banned in the Russian Federation, Mustafa Dzhemilev, had his sentence changed.
Instead of a two-year suspended sentence, he was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The defense of Dzhemilev, who is banned from entering Crimea until 2034, appealed the verdict of the Armyansk city court. For illegally crossing the Russian state border, illegal storage of ammunition and careless storage of firearms with grave consequences, the leader of the Mejlis and a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada was sentenced to two years probation, but was immediately released from liability under an amnesty. Dzhemilev's lawyers insisted on the court's acquittal.
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan considered the appeal and decided to tighten the sentence to three years, to be served in a general regime correctional colony. The court decision will be executed as soon as Dzhemilev is on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Let us remind you that several criminal cases were initiated against Dzhemilev. Two of them concern not the head of the Majlis himself, but his son Hayser, who in May 2013 shot a worker with his father’s carbine in his own house in Bakhchisaray.
Dzhemilev Sr. insisted on the insanity of his son, who, apparently, was in a state of drug intoxication, and demanded that foreign doctors be brought in to examine the state of his son’s health. In this case, it is not clear why the father did not limit the patient’s access to firearms and why he kept live ammunition, which is prohibited in civilian use, at home.
The third criminal case was opened after Dzhemilev staged a demonstrative demarche on the Russian-Ukrainian border at the Armyansk checkpoint. The day before, border control officers at Sheremetyevo airport handed him a ban on entry into the Russian Federation. Then Dzhemilev, accompanied by a group of people, crossed the border on foot near Armyansk, but he was also sent back to the territory of Ukraine.
In January 2016, a Simferopol court arrested Dzhemilev in absentia. Criminal cases have been initiated against the Ukrainian people's deputy under three articles at once, among which is aiding and abetting terrorism.