The defendant in the so-called Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case Marlen Asanov is kept in a special block of the Russian remand prison in Rostov-on-Don under 24-hour video surveillance. The Crimean Tatar Resource Center was informed about this by his wife Aishe Asanova.
“My spouse was transferred again to another pre-trial detention center. This is already the third, before that he was in pre-trial detention center # 1, then after the verdict, he was transferred to pre-trial detention center # 5, since allegedly those who have already been sentenced in pre-trial detention center # 1 should not be there. And now, from pre-trial detention center # 5, he was transferred to pre-trial detention center # 3, which is in Novocherkassk. According to the lawyer, her spouse was immediately placed in a special block. There he is alone under 24-hour video surveillance”,- she said.
The spouse stressed that all these transfers are very difficult, but the political prisoner does not complain about anything and firmly passes all the tests.
We remind that on October 11, 2017, in the city of Bakhchisaray, the invaders carried out mass searches in 6 dwellings of Crimean Tatars – Marlen Asanov, Seiran Saliiev, Timur Ibrahimov, Memet Belyalov, Ernest Ametov, Server Zakiryaev. Everyone was detained. They were charged under Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Participation in the activities of an organization which, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, is recognized as terrorist”.
On May 21, 2018, Russian security forces raided the dwellings 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 were also accused of their membership in Hizb ut-Tahrir organisation, which is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.
In February 2019, a criminal case was opened against eight individuals involved in the so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Marlen Asanov, Seiran Saliiev, Timur Ibrahimov, Memet Belyalov, Ernest Ametov, Server Zakiryaev, Server Mustafayev and Edem Smailov (“Violent seizure of power or violent retention of power”).
On March 5, it became known that the two defendants in the so-called second Bakhchysarai Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Timur Ibrahimov and Memet Belyalov – had their charge tightened from part two of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (“participation in the activities of a terrorist organization”) to the part one (“organization of the activities of a terrorist organization”).
On September 16, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don announced the verdict to the defendants in the second so-called Bakhchisaray