Yunus Masharipov

Detained on 27 September 2017. On 29 September 2017, he was taken into custody by the Kyiv District Court of Simferopol of the Republic of Crimea. According to Yunus Masharipov, on 29 September 2017, when he was brought to the Yalta City Court to determine a preventive measure, he invoked Article 51 of the Russian Constitution, refused to testify and claimed to have been tortured. However, the judge ignored these statements, Masharipov said. In his statement, he wrote that now (meaning in autumn 2017), "FSB officers threaten reprisals and placement in a psychiatric hospital for life because under Article 51, I refused to give my testimony due to torture." On 13 November 2018, the Yalta City Court sentenced Masharipov to four years of general regime colony and a fine of 110,000 rubles. The Court of Appeal left the judgement unchanged, apart from minor details in the text, but in the Court of Cassation, Masharipov managed to get the case returned to the court of first instance. On 3 March 2020, the court ordered that Masharipov be sent to a psychiatric hospital. On 25 June, the Court of Appeal overturned the decision. On 1 March 2021, the Cassation Court sent the case for review. On 27 April 2021, the Court of Appeal left the first instance court's decision unchanged.