After the occupation of Crimea, the Russian Federation actively practices religious persecution on the peninsula. According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, to date, 20 political prisoners of Crimea have been illegally sentenced to 5 to 19 years on suspicion of involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, banned in the Russian Federation. All of them are held in prisons in the Russian Federation.
According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, to date, 20 political prisoners of Crimea have been illegally sentenced to 5 to 19 years on suspicion of involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, banned in the Russian Federation:
* Individuals involved in the so-called Sevastopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case:
– Ruslan Zeytullaev – sentenced to 15 years in a maximum security penal colony;
– Rustem Vaitov – sentenced to 5 years in a penal colony;
– Ferat Sayfullaev – sentenced to 5 years in a penal colony;
– Nuri Primov – sentenced to 5 years in a penal colony.
* Individuals involved in the so-called Bakhchısaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case:
– Enver Mamutov – sentenced to 16 years and 9 months in a maximum security penal colony with a freedom restriction for 1 year and 6 months;
– Zevri Abseitov – sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in a maximum security penal colony with a freedom restriction for 1 year;
– Rustem Abiltarov – sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in a maximum security penal colony with a freedom restriction for 1 year;
– Remzi Memetov – sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in a maximum security penal colony with a freedom restriction for 1 year.
* Individuals involved in the so-called Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case:
– Teymur Abdullaev – sentenced to 17 years in a maximum security penal colony with a freedom restriction for 1 year and 6 months;
– Rustem Ismailov – sentenced to 14 years in a maximum security penal colony;
– Uzeir Abdullaev – sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security penal colony;
– Ayder Saledinov – sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security penal colony;
– Emil Dzhemadenov – sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security penal colony.
* Individuals involved in the so-called Yalta Hizb ut-Tahrir case:
– Muslim Aliiev – sentenced to 19 years in a maximum security penal colony with a freedom restriction for 1 year;
– Enver Bekirov – sentenced to 18 years in a maximum security penal colony with a freedom restriction for 1 year;
– Emir-Huseyn Kuku – sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security penal colony with a freedom restriction for 1 year;
– Vadım Siruk – sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security penal colony with a freedom restriction for 1 year;
– Refat Alimov – sentenced to 8 years in a maximum security penal colony with a freedom restriction for 1 year.
– Arsen Dzhepparov – sentenced to 7 years in a maximum security penal colony with a freedom restriction for 1 year.
* Individual involved in the so-called Hizb ut-Tahrir case:
– Enver Seitosmanov – sentenced to 17 years in a maximum security penal colony with a freedom restriction for 1 year.
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center strongly protests and states that these decisions are illegal, politically motivated and criminal.
Such a policy of the Russian Federation is a demonstration of the fight against dissent, as well as religious and political beliefs of people in the occupied Crimea.
The Russian Federation illegally uses its legislation for political purposes, in particular, to suppress the non-violent struggle of the Crimean Tatars and their protest against the occupation of Crimea.
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center demands the abolition of the sentence to all persons involved in the so-called Hizb ut-Tahrir case and the immediate release of other political prisoners.
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center calls on the international community, international human rights organizations to increase pressure on the Russian Federation and the occupation powers of Crimea, in order to end political persecution and cancel earlier court decisions.