Five years ago, on May 21, 2018, in the occupied Crimea, Russian security forces raided the homes of activists of the Crimean Solidarity public association, as a result of which Server Mustafayev and Edem Smailov were detained. They were accused of participating in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, banned on the territory of the Russian Federation.
On September 16, 2020, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Server Mustafayev to 14 years, and Edem Smailov to 13.
The political prisoners have been in captivity for five years now.
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center strongly protests and declares that these actions of the Russian Federation are illegal, politically motivated and criminal. Such a policy of the Russian Federation is a demonstration of the struggle against the political convictions of the citizens of the occupied Crimea.
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center demands that the sentences of the defendants in the case be canceled and that other political prisoners be released immediately.