MFA Ukraine on “sentences” to four Crimean Tatars: “null and void”

That’s according to a commentary issued on the ministry’s website, Ukrinform reports.

Jebbar Bekirov was sentenced by the so-called "court" to 17 years in a high-security cony, with the first four years to be served in prison. Activists Rustem Tairov, Rustem Murasov, and Zavur Abdullayev received 12 years of imprisonment each, with the first four years ruled to be served in prison.

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These latest falsified, null and void "sentences" only show that Russia is resorting to all kinds of crimes in the temporarily occupied territories with the aim of “destroying centers of freedom of thought and religion that remain beyond the contr of their punitive bodies.”

“Vience and repression cannot be the answer to the right to express one's beliefs and defend one's identity,” MFA Ukraine stressed.

The ministry called on Ukraine's international partners, including within the framework of the International Crimea Platform, “to condemn the repressive campaigns run by the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and the practice of viations of international humanitarian law and human rights.”

The Ukrainian citizens were detained in August 2021 in temporarily occupied Crimea on pitically motivated charges in the case of the so-called "Second Sevast Group of Hizb ut-Tahrir". They were arrested and accused of "terrorist activities."