Upon arrival in the Russian colony in the Republic of Bashkortostan, the defendant in the so-called Hizb ut-Tahrir case Teymur Abdullaev was visited by FSIN and Center “E” operatives who offered to give up on his views and start cooperating with them, but the political prisoner refused even to enter into such a dialogue. The Crimean Tatar Resource Center was informed about this by his wife Alime.
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“Upon arrival in the colony, detectives from the FSIN and the Center for Combating Extremism came to him. Detectives offered to abandon his views. They also urgen him to begin to cooperate with them, give any evidence. My husband naturally refused to even enter into such a dialogue”,- Alime said.
According to the wife, they later hinted to the political prisoner that the reason for his being in the punishment cell was the refusal to cooperate.
“To my question: “Are there any kinds of pressure or torture?” He replied: “The very fact of being in a pre-trial detention center, with such unbearable conditions, is already pressure”,- she added.
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, Uzeyir 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.