Leonid Kuzmin, who organized the event in honor of Taras Shevchenko’s birthday in Simferopol, was sentenced to 40 hours of corrective work for using the Ukrainian symbolism during the event. QHA informs about that.
Three witnesses were heard in the case of Kuzmin. One of them, a police officer, said that the detainee kept in hand the Ukrainian flag. Kuzmin denies these testimonies.
The lawyer Emil Kurbedinov noted that it is not specified in protocol what article was violated by his client. He added that there was no expertise that could recognize Ukrainian attributes as “extremist”. According to him, Kuzmin acted in accordance with the law.
As a reminder, another two demonstrators in Simferopol, Veldar Shukurdzhiev and Aleksandr Kravchenko, were imposed the same judgment.
