«Court» on Chiygoz’s case in Crimea completed studying rally’s photos from February 26, 2014 – they all point to political prisoner’s innocence (VIDEO)
The so-called Supreme Court of the occupied Crimea continued on Tuesday, January 17 studying «material evidence» in the case of the deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Akhtem Chiygoz.
As at previous hearings today photos have been investigated from the event on February 26, 2014 under the walls of the Supreme Council of Crimea. As the lawyer Nikolay Polozov said, «material evidence» once again showed Chiygoz’s innocence in the charges against him.
«On some of the photos we saw Chiygoz. He was on the right side of the yard and that is a very different place from the line of contact between the guardsmen and demonstrators. Therefore for sure he could not give any orders. There is no evidence on the presented photos that Chiygoz flourished his arms, as the victims and witnesses had pointed out earlier», Polozov said in a video published by the CEC head of Kurultai of Crimean Tatars Zair Smedlya on his Facebook.
The lawyer also underlined that the presented photos to the «court» in Chiygoz’s case again prove that the initiators of mass unrest during the Ukrainian territorial integrity rally on February 26, 2014 were pro-Russian participants:
«There is shown in the presented photos that the members of the so-called civil guardsmen came to the building of the Supreme Council of Crimea significantly earlier than the appointed rally of the party «Russian Unity» was held. They occupied a major part of the area at the inner yard and actually prevented to realize the rally’s participants of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people their right to freedom provoking retaliatory negative action from their side”.
To remind some facts, Akhtem Chiygoz is impleaded in Crimea for so-called organizing mass riots during a rally in support of the territorial integrity of Ukraine on February 26, 2014 under the walls of the Supreme Council of Crimea. He is faced up committing to prison for 15 years.
