On Thursday, May 14, during a hearing on the so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case in the Southern District Military Court of the Russian Federation, it turned out that the transcript made by the FSB officer and the audio recording of the wiretap did not match: words are skipped, phrases and whole sentences are replaced. It is reported by the Crimean solidarity public association.
The defendant in the so-called case Server Mustafayev emphasized that the word “fatwa” is present in the audio recording, and it is missing in the transcript; the word “fire” was written as “hell”. Some words are missing, some are translated.
“We see an absolutely poor-quality record that degrades any expert. I think other defendants will supplement and say how many times the transcript has distorted the record and how an examination, on the basis of which fathers with many children have been in custody for many months, confirmed everything”,- Mustafayev said.
We remind that on May 21, 2018, Russian security forces raided the homes of activists of the Crimean Solidarity public association 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
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 Zekiryayev, Memet Belyalov, Seyran Saliiev, Ernest Ametov, Timur Ibrahimov, Edem Smailov and Server Mustafayev – were transferred from Crimea to Rostov-on-Don.