The defendants in the so-called Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case Teymur Abdullaev and Ayder Saledinov continue to exert pressure to break and subjugate them. Political prisoners are constantly being held in inhuman conditions in the punishment cell. This was reported by lawyer Emil Kurbedinov via his Facebook page.
“With the full connivance of the prosecutor’s office of the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Republic of Bashkortostan, unlawful actions by the administration and operational staff of the correctional colony against political prisoners – Teymur Abdullaev and Ayder Saledinov continue. The so-called training of these political prisoners is carried out with the aim of breaking them down and subjugating their will. The respective measure is used – imposing fictitious penalties on convicts and their constant detention not in the camp, but in inhuman conditions of punishment cells and other places of solitary confinement”,- the report said.
The lawyer noted that the penitentiary service of Bashkortostan refused to provide him with relevant information and copies of documents regarding the penalties imposed on Teymur and Ayder.
“My goal is to appeal these far-fetched penalties. Sleeping in a wrong place; addressing the guardsman in a wrong manner; not exercising – these are terrible crimes for which they simply break people and ruin their health in Bashkortostan colony #2!”,-he added.
We remind that on October 12, 2016, Russian security forces in the village of Strohonivka of Simferopol region arrested five representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people – Uzeir Abdullaev, Teymur Abdullaev, Rustem Ismailov, Emil Dzhemadenov and Ayder Saledinov as a result of mass searches. They were accused of participating in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization banned in the Russian Federation and charged with article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“organizing the activities of a terrorist organization and participating in it”).
On June 18, 2019, the North Caucasian District Military Court of the Russian Federation sentenced the so-called Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case defendants: Teymur Abdullaev to 17 years in a maximum security penal colony with a probation term of 1 year and 6 months, Rustem Ismailov – to 14 years, Uzeir Abdullaev – to 13 years, Ayder Saledinov and Emil Dzhemadenov – to 12 years.
On December 24, 2019, the Supreme Court in Moscow reduced the terms of imprisonment of the so-called Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case defendants by 6 months.