Political prisoner Teymur Abdullaev is kept in a punishment cell despite his health condition

November 18, 2020

The defendant in the so-called Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Teymur Abdullaev, was again placed in a punishment cell, despite his poor health: high fever, cough, weakness. Nobody provides medical assistance. This is reported by the mother of the political prisoner Diliara Abdullayeva via her Facebook page.

“My son needs urgent help! My son Abdullaev Teymur is very sick – a virus. With such a serious and deadly disease, he is kept in a punishment cell and his condition has worsened even more. Today a lawyer from Ufa delivered the necessary medications to the colony and he learned that my son was placed in a punishment cell today!”,- she wrote.

The mother of the political prisoner turned to the relevant authorities with a request to check the physical condition of Teymur Abdullaev, the conditions of detention and treatment.

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 Aider 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.