The so-called Hizb ut-Tahrir case defendant Server Mustafayev had his tests taken – his wife

April 22, 2020

The so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case defendant, Server Mustafayev, after having a very serious illness, took the tests. This was reported by his wife, Maie, to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, adding that he now looks pale and thin.

His wife noted that on April 17, Server Mustafayev was visited by a lawyer. According to her, he is very ill, now he feels better, but looks pale and thin.

“He has a very weakened immune system. But no one provides him with any medical help. At the very least, they can moderate the temperature and give painkillers. The only thing is, he has finally taken the tests”,- she said.

The wife notes that the political prisoner is held in a common cell, there are 8 people there. The cell is not processed with any antiseptic agents in the conditions of coronavirus infection.

“We no longer can have a date since March due to a quarantine. All the news are learned from a lawyer. We cannot make transfers because we cannot go to Rostov”,- Maie added.

We remind that on May 21, 2018, Russian security forces raided the homes of activists of the Crimean Solidarity public initiative in the 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 deatainees in the so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Marlen Asanov, Server Zekiryaev, Memet Belyalov, Seyran Saliiev, Ernest Ametov, Timur Ibrahimov, Edem Smailov and Server Mustafayev – were transferred from Crimea to Rostov-on-Don.