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] The trial was sometimes called the Tashkent Process (Russian: Ташкентский процесс).
They were tried under Articles 190-1 of the RSFSR Criminal Code[2] and similar codes of other Soviet republics[3] for activities the prosecutor described as "being actively involved in solving the so-called Crimean Tatar issue [sic]".
[3] During questioning the defendants consistently reasserted that they were of Crimean Tatar nationality.
[6] The court consisted of judge Kudus Saifutdinov, people's assessors Samoilova and Isfandiarov, prosecutor Enkalov, defense attorneys Zaslavsky, Safonov.