Crimean prosecutor's office (legitimate) filed charges against Kremlin-controlled " The mufti, who supports the occupiers, will be tried in absentia for the active call of the Crimean Tatar population of the peninsula to actively support the actions of the Russian Federation, the prosecutor's office said.

“Speaking in a number of propaganda media, the so-called mufti of the Muslims of Crimea justified the occupation, broadcast the “ideas of the Russian world” and spoke positively about the armed aggression of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine. In addition, the accused urged to show respect for the Russian language and culture for the sake of balancing interethnic relations,” the prosecutor’s office noted..

At the same time, according to the investigation, the defendant condemned the Crimean Tatars who oppose the occupation of Crimea by Russia.. He also condemned the representatives of the Crimean Tatar people who were forced to leave Crimea after 2014 and moved to the mainland of Ukraine.

“For their ‘efforts’, the occupying authorities of the Russian Federation in Crimea awarded the Mufti with the medal ‘For Valiant Labor’ and the Order ‘For Loyalty to Duty’,” the prosecutor’s office added..

Law enforcers qualified the actions of the so-called mufti as justification, recognition of the lawful and denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants (h. 3 st. 436-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and collaboration activities (h. 6 st. 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). He faces up to 12 years in prison.

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Read about the life of the Crimean Tatars in the ninth year of the occupation of the peninsula and the future of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in an interview with Alexei Gordeev: “Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Aider Rustemov: resistance to Russians in a partisan war”.