The Office of the Prosecutor General opened a criminal case in connection with the violation of the rights of Teymur Abdullaev, a defendant in the so-called Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Simferopol, whom the invaders have been keeping in a punishment cell for more than 5 months. This was reported by the press service of the department.
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“Law enforcement agencies have established systematic gross violations of human rights in places of detention. Thus, a citizen of Ukraine, a political prisoner in the so-called Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Teymur Abdullaev, illegally sentenced to 16.5 years in prison, received an unlawfully long solitary confinement in a colony on the territory of the Russian Federation, where he was completely deprived of medical assistance and contacts with lawyers and relatives. Since March 2020, he spent at least 5 months in solitary confinement. According to preliminary data, the colony staff threatened him, blackmailed him, persuaded him to cooperate and provide revealing information about other prisoners”,- the message said.
It is noted that these actions are a violation of Article 37 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, 1949.
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.
On June 10, 2020, Russian security forces conducted mass searches in the houses of the Crimean Tatars in Alushta, Bilohirsk and Simferopol. As a result, 8 people were detained on suspicion of involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization banned in the Russian Federation. Among the detainees were Riza Omerov and Enver Omerov. On January 12, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Enver Omerov to 18 years and Riza Omerov to 13 years in prison.