The so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case defendant Server Mustafayev sent a letter dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar People, in which he stressed that Russia continues the genocide in front of the whole world in the occupied Crimea, turning all international norms and treaties into rubbish. The text of the letter was posted by the Crimean Tatar activist Lenur Islyamov via his Facebook page.
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“My unconquered, long-suffering people have a long history of fighting for the rights to their culture, language, religion and native land. Unfortunately, the inhuman and illegal, repressive actions against the Muslims of Crimea continue again and again. Today, this is done by the bloodied hand of the successor of the despotic Stalinist regime – Russia, which, unashamedly, continues genocide in front of the whole world, turning all international norms and treaties into rubbish, with the complete inability of the international community to stop this absurdity”,- the letter claims.
The political prisoner emphasized that the systematic pressure on the Crimean Tatar people, repressions of Ukrainian citizens on ethnic and religious grounds, the organization of ethnically and politically motivated persecution of Crimean Tatars, the Mejlis, imams, human rights defenders, public figures and journalists in Crimea by state bodies, the law enforcement system of Russia is a conscious ethnocide policy of the inhabitants of Crimea and Crimean Tatars.
We remind that on May 21, 2018, Russian security forces raided the homes 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 are accused of participating in the organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned on the territory of the Russian Federation.
On December 14, 2018, Server Mustafayev was
In February 2019, Mustafayev was accused of spreading, studying and propagating extremist ideology.
On September 12, 2019, eight deatainees in the so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Marlen Asanov, Server Zekiryaev, Memet Belyalov, Seyran Saliiev, Ernest Ametov, Timur Ibrahimov, Edem Smailov and Server Mustafayev – were transferred from Crimea to Rostov-on-Don.