Simferopol, February 14 (PolitNavigator, Evgeny Andreev) – The statement of the leader of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars, Refat Chubarov, expelled from Crimea, that the republic’s lawyers are afraid to defend his arrested comrades is far from the truth.
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Crimean lawyer Ivan Bakai told PolitNavigator about this.
“For any lawyer, the opportunity to participate in the defense of a client in a case with political overtones is a great success. I say this as a participant in the trials against the “Crimean separatists” Podyachey and Klyuev, in the case of the abolition of the Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and other similar cases. Why? Yes, because those 90 percent of cases in which the main motives are selfish motives simply bore the defense attorneys,” the lawyer noted.
“In fact, lawyers do not want to get involved with the so-called. members of the Mejlis because of disgust towards national radicals,” said Ivan Bakai.
As PolitNavigator reported, recently on the Kyiv TV channel Espresso-TV Refat Chubarov noted that “each time there are fewer and fewer lawyers in Crimea who would like to take on cases brought by the FSB or the Investigative Committee, and especially against Crimean Tatars "