Tashkent Ten

The Tashkent Ten were ten Crimean Tatar civil rights activists tried in Tashkent by the Uzbek Supreme Court from 1 July to 5 August 1969.[1]

They were tried under Articles 190-1 of the RSFSR Criminal Code and similar codes of other Soviet republics for activities the prosecutor Boris Berezovsky described as "being actively involved in solving the so-called Crimean Tatar issue [sic]".

In line with standard practice at the time, the indictment and prosecution documents consistently labeled Crimean Tatars referred to in them not as Crimean Tatars but as "persons of Tatar nationality who previously lived in Crimea" and avoided acknowledging Crimean Tatars to be a distinct ethnic group, using degrading phrases like "so-called Crimean Tatars" to mock the defendants use of the ethnonym "Crimean Tatar", which the defendants in turn denounced during the proceedings.[2]

Defendants
  • Svetlana Ametova
  • Reshat Bayramov
  • Ayder Bariev
  • Ruslan Eminov
  • Ridvan Gafarov
  • Izzet Khairov
  • Munira Khalilova
  • Rollan Qadiyev
  • Riza Umerov
  • Ismail Yazydzhiev

References
  1. "THE TRIAL OF TEN CRIMEAN TATARS: TASHKENT, JULY-AUGUST 1969 (9.2)". A Chronicle of Current Events. 9 October 2013 [31 August 1969]. Archived from the original on 1 October 2023. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  2. Bekirova, Gulnara (23 July 2015). "Ташкентский процесс". Крым.Реалии (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-10-11.

Bibliography
  • Ташкентский процесс: Суд над десятью представителями крымскотатарского народа (1 июля – 5 августа 1969 г.): Сборник документов с иллюстрациями. – Амстердам: Фонд имени Герцена, 1976. – 854 с., [4] л. ил.: портр., факс. – (Серия «Библиотека Самиздата»; № 7)
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