I still don’t know anything about the condition and whereabouts of my husband – wife of the political prisoner Aliev

August 28, 2020

Even his relatives do not know anything about the condition and whereabouts of Muslim Aliev, a defendant in the so-called Yalta Hizb ut-Tahrir case, who was diagnosed with a coronavirus infection. This is reported by his wife via her Facebook page.

“On August 20, 2020, from the lawyer Edem Semedlyaev, I learned that my husband is in pre-trial detention center 1 in the city of Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, where he intended to meet with his client. However, they did not manage to communicate, since according to the operative officer this was impossible due to Muslim Aliev's severe symptoms of COVID-19, he was also diagnosed with a positive test for coronavirus infection”,- the message says.

The wife noted that after seven days, she still does not know anything about the condition and whereabouts of her husband.

We remind that Emir-Husein Kuku, Vadym Siruk, Muslim Aliev, Enver Bekirov, Arsen Dzhepparov and Refat Alimov are accused of participation in the organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned in the Russian Federation. They are charged with Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“organization of the activities of a terrorist organization and participation in it”). Later they began to impute Article 278 of the Criminal Code ("Forced seizure of power or forcible retention of power"). On October 11, during a court session in the Southern District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don, the prosecutor requested 13 to 20 years in prison for the so-called Yalta Hizb ut-Tahrir case defendants. On November 12, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don announced the sentence. Muslim Aliev and Enver Bekirov were sentenced to 19 and 18 years in a maximum security penal colony, Emir-Husein Kuku and Vadim Siruk – to 12 years, Refat Alimov – to 8 years, Arsen Dzhepparov – to 7 years.