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Nikolai Fedoryan, suspected of treason, was detained until January 5, 2021 with the possibility of posting bail of 1.5 million UAH. The man denies his guilt.
The Kherson city court arrested Nikolai Fedoryan, a suspect of high treason, who was arrested the day before when crossing the administrative border with Russian-occupied Crimea… This was reported on November 9 by Krym.Realii.
According to the newspaper, Fedoryan will be detained until January 5, 2021. Bail of 1,537,900 UAH was assigned to him.
“I do not admit my guilt. I did not betray Ukraine. I crossed the border between Crimea and Ukraine 10 times … If I felt that I had done something illegal against Ukraine, I would sit back and be silent,” Fedoryan said.
He also believes that all the evidence was obtained “illegally”, and the presence of journalists at the meeting “suggests that it is a purely political issue.”
Fedoryan claims that since November 7 he only drank water and went on a hunger strike. He declined to comment on the court’s decision, according to the report.
On November 7, a man was arrested on suspicion of high treason while crossing the administrative border with Russian-occupied Crimea at the Kalanchak checkpoint. According to the Crimean Prosecutor’s Office, it systematically provided assistance to the occupying authorities of the peninsula during the illegal searches and arrests of citizens in the Hizb ut-Tahrir cases.
On March 27, 2019, according to the prosecutor’s office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the suspect provided transportation to the occupants to carry out 25 illegal searches at the homes of Crimean Tatars in Simferopol. As a result of the searches, 23 people were arrested.
The suspect has been arrested, the Kherson City Court will soon consider the request to choose a preventive measure. Figurant he is suspected of committing high treason by providing a foreign state with assistance in carrying out subversive activities against Ukraine (part 1 of article 111 of the main code of Ukraine).
According to Ukrainska Pravda, the suspect is Nikolai Fedoryan, who held senior positions in Ukraine’s Interior Ministry. In 2011, he retired from the post of deputy director of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
Russia annexed Crimea after an energetic blockade of Ukrainian military units and an illegal referendum on March 16, 2014. Ukraine and most other countries in the world do not recognize the peninsula’s accession to the Russian Federation. Ukraine and most of the countries of the world do not recognize the accession of the peninsula to the Russian Federation.
After the annexation of Crimea, according to human rights defenders from the international organization Human Rights Watch, the human rights situation on the peninsula has deteriorated significantly. Under various pretexts, including the fight against extremism, the authorities go after people who dare to openly criticize Russia’s actions on the peninsula, especially the Crimean Tatars.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Islamic political organization that calls for the unification of all Muslim countries into one caliphate, but rejects terrorist fighting methods. Russia recognized him as a terrorist in 2003, Hizb ut-Tahrir’s activities are prohibited on the country’s territory and it is legal under Ukrainian law. In Western Europe and North America, this organization is also not prohibited, with the exception of administrative restrictions on its activities in Germany.
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