This was reported by the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Maryana Betsa.
"Eight years for patriotism ... Pseudo-prosecutor's office, pseudo-courts. We demand from occupants to stop the persecution of A. Chygoz",wrote Betsa.
Earlier it was reported that the lawyer of Chigoz Mykola Polozov informed that in the so-called supreme Court of Crimea the debates began in the case of Chigoz. The prosecution party asks for Chiogoz 8 years of imprisonment. The deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Ahtem Chygog was arrested in January 2015 for participating in a rally in support of the territorial integrity of Ukraine that took place in front of the building of the Supreme Council of Crimea on February 26, 2014. At that time pro-Russian activists opposed the protesters, including those from the party "Russian Unity," led by Sergei Aksenov, the current "head" of the Crimea. Russian authorities of the annexed Crimea accuse Akhtem Chygoz of organizing mass unrest during a rally near the walls of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomou Republic of Crimea.
