The health of a political prisoner Server Mustafayev has deteriorated – Denisova

March 23, 2020

The health condition of the so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case defendant Server Mustafayev has worsened: the body temperature has risen to 39.3, he has a dry cough, severe headache and weakness throughout the body, but no one is providing medical assistance. This was reported by the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Liudmyla Denisova, via her Facebook page.

“He appealed to the Southern District Military Court and the administration of the penitentiary institution to provide him with proper medical care, but he received only antipyretic injections, not a single analysis was made and no diagnostics were conducted”,- the report said.

Denisova considers such actions by the Russian authorities unacceptable, given the coronavirus pandemic declared by the World Health Organization.

“I demand the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova to immediately conduct a full medical examination of Server Mustafayev in order to exclude infectious diseases, in particular coronavirus infection. Also you are obliged to ensure the provision of qualified healthcare in a place of confinement in accordance with international standards for the provision of healthcare to individuals who are in custody”,- she emphasized.

We remind that on May 21, 2018, Russian security forces raided the dwellings of activists of the Crimean Solidarity public association in occupied Crimea, as a result of which Server Mustafayev and Edem Smailov were detained. They are accused of participating in the organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned on the territory of the Russian Federation.

On December 14, 2018, Server Mustafayev was sent to a psychiatric hospital for a so-called examination. Mustafayev himself described his placement in a psychiatric hospital as a punitive psychiatry.

In February 2019, Mustafayev was accused of spreading, studying and propagating extremist ideology.

On September 12, 2019, eight individuals involved in the so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Marlen Asanov, Server Zekiryayev, Memet Belyalov, Seyran Saliiev, Ernest Ametov, Timur Ibrahimov, Edem Smailov and Server Mustafayev – were transferred from Crimea to Rostov-on-Don.