Chubarov: Russia tries to gain control over runaway oppositionists in Ukraine

Over the past one-half year there has been increased significantly a number of requests from the Russian Federation to Ukraine with a request to extradite the Russians who allegedly suspected in complicity for involvement in terrorism. MP, a chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov said that on the sidelines of the Verkhovna Rada.

«I know one thing for sure, and it will confirm the Security Service of Ukraine over the past one-half year that there has been increased dramatically a number of requests from the Russian Federation to Ukraine on the issue of the Russian citizens’ extradition», MP said as Ukrinform reports.

According to him, a vast majority of these requests concerns people who are accused of the alleged connivance of extremism and involvement into the terrorist organizations activity.

Chubarov suggested that such way Russia was trying to gain a total control over its citizens who are in opposition to the current Russian government and forced to live in other countries.

To recall some facts, Chubarov said earlier that there are in the Ukrainian prisons people who are illegally persecuted in Russia and can be extradited to it. The politician has also called on the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine to consider the implementation of public control over such things and to prevent a situation like «sending people to death».

In particular, the MP expressed his readiness to bail one Muslim man from Ingushetia, Ruslan Meyriev, but the court rejected his petition. In January 2016 the Russian citizen, a Muslim man from Ingushetia, Ruslan Meyriev was arrested by the SSU in Zaporozhye region and is taken under the extradition arrest to one of the district courts in Zaporozhye according to the request of the regional prosecutor’s office.

The General Prosecutor’s Office in Ukraine may decide to extradite Meyriev to Russia, where he is charged with several «terrorist» articles among which one # 205.5 is incriminated with all 19 Crimean Tatars whose the occupation authorities seized in Crimea, and Ukraine calls them the political prisoners.