On Wednesday, 21 August, attorney Lilya Gemedzhi visited her client, defendant of Simferopol “Hizb ut-Tahrir case”, Ayder Saledinov, in the detention center №1 in Rostov-on-Don. She said there was a search in his cell as a result of which the toilet was broken and drainage was filling the cell. This is reported by Crimean Solidarity referring to the attorney, Lilya Gemedzhi.
It is also known that Saledinov was held in the solitary confinement cell.
“He [Saledinov] was wrongly accused of allegedly conversing with other inmates through the window and was put in the solitary confinement for five days. Afterward, he was supposed to be transferred back into his cell but instead was put into another cell with no chair, table, water, and toilet”, said the attorney.
“…the door in this cell opened and another man who said he had tuberculosis was pushed in there. At this point, they were supposed to send him to the cell near the medical office. Knowing that this is the exchange between tubercular patient and himself, my client refused to leave the cell and expressed disagreement to stay in the same cell together. Afterward, Saledinov stayed in the cell and around 8 p.m. was transferred to a two-people cell.
Saledinov called the actions by the detention center employees as a pressure. He is reportedly named “terrorist”, humiliated and psychologically pressured.
The attorney also found out that there was a search in his cell as a result of which the toilet was broken and a choking odor of drainage was filling the cell. No one has tried to repair the damage.
“Therefore, my defendant has been under another kind of torture. We will appeal against these torturous conditions to the pretrial detention center of Federal Penitentiary Service in Rostov-on-Don and Rostov region. We will take measures for Public Oversight Commission to visit my defendant and make sure that his rights are not violated”, said attorney Lilya Gemedzhi.
Previously, on 12 October 2016, Russian security forces in the result of mass searches in Stroganovka village in Simferopol region arrested five representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people – Teymur Abdullaev, Uzeir Abdullaev, Ayder Saledinov, Rustem Ismailov and Emil Dzhemadenov. They were accused of participation in the Hizb-ut-Tahrir organization that is illegal in Russia. They were charged with the article 205.5 Criminal Code of RF (“activity and participation in the terrorist organization”).
On 18 June 2019, North Caucasian district military court sentenced Teymur Abdullaev to seventeen years in a high-security prison with the restriction of liberty for one year and six months, Rustem Ismailov to fourteen years, Uzeir Abdullaev to thirteen years, Ayder Saledinov and Emil Dzhemadenov to twelve years.