A defendant in the Krasnohvardiiske Hizb ut-Tahrir case Eskender Abdulhaniev, according to a court decision, after prison, should have been transferred to a colony a year ago, but this did not happen. Lawyer Rustem Kiamilev told Crimean Solidarity about this.
A lawyer filed a lawsuit in a Russian court so that the Crimean political prisoner would be transferred from prison to a maximum security colony in the near future.
“The prison provides for the strictest conditions of detention, they are much more difficult than in colonies. A person should not sit out”,= said Kiamilev.
We remind you that on February 14, 2019, Russian security forces conducted searches in the dwellings of Crimean Tatars in the village of Oktiabrske of Krasnohvardiisk district. Three men were detained and taken to the FSB. Criminal proceedings were instituted against them on suspicion of organizing and participating in the activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization banned in the Russian Federation.
On February 15, the so-called Kyiv District Court of Simferopol arrested Eskender Abdulhaniev, Rustem Emiruseinov and Arsen Abkhairov detained after a search of the Crimean Tatars on suspicion of membership in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, which was banned in Russia.
On November 3, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don announced the verdict to the defendants in the so-called Krasnohvardiiske Hizb ut-Tahrir case. Rustem Emiruseinov was sentenced to 17 years behind bars, Arsen Abkhairov – to 13, and Eskender Abdulhaniev – to 12. Political prisoners are forced to serve the first two years in prison.
There are also cases of attempts to force the adoption of Russian citizenship.