On Wednesday, June 10, the defendant in the so-called Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case Teymur Abdullaev made a call to his wife from the colony. The political prisoner said that he had his term of detention extended once again in the punishment cell – until June 20. Russian jailers noted that they received an order not to pull him out of the punishment cell at all. The Crimean Tatar Resource Center was informed about this by his wife Alime.
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“Today (June 10), at 18:00, an official call from my husband took place. To the question: “How long are they going to keep you in the punishment cell?”He answered: “One of the guards said that he had received an order not to pull me out of the punishment cell at all”,- said Alime.
The wife emphasized that convicts who greet Teymur are punished. For example, one prisoner was sanctioned for 3 months in a punishment cell.
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, Uzeir 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.