For the first time, since the day of the verdict, Edem Smailov, the defendant in the so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case was allowed to meet his wife. The political prisoner thanked the people for their support, because “they are the ones who helps us to withstand all the challenges.” The Crimean Tatar Resource Center was informed about this by his wife Leilia.
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“After the verdict, my husband was transferred from pre-trial detention center # 1 to pre-trial detention center # 5 in Rostov-on-Don. In pre-trial detention center # 1 cell was for three people without smokers (which he was very happy about), without a refrigerator, without a TV. Now here, in pre-trial detention center # 5, there is a refrigerator, a TV, there are 6 people in the cell, but now the problem is tobacco smoke, which causes him to constantly cough. There are a lot of cockroaches”,- she said.
The spouse noted that Edem Smailov, like all political prisoners, is worried about his teeth, but no one is going to provide any medical assistance. In addition, their religious interests are not considered and pork is given.
“There has never been such a meeting with him, where Edem did not say his warm words about our people. We really feel the support of the people here and this gives us strength and patience. This helps us to withstand all the challenges that the Almighty ascribed to us”, – Leilia quoted the words of her husband.
We remind that on October 11, 2017, in the city of Bakhchisaray, the invaders carried out mass searches in 6 dwellings of Crimean Tatars – Marlen Asanov, Seiran Saliiev, Timur Ibrahimov, Memet Belyalov, Ernest Ametov, Server Zakiryaev. Everyone was detained. They were charged under Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Participation in the activities of an organization which, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, is recognized as terrorist”.
On May 21, 2018, Russian security forces raided the dwellings 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 were also accused of their membership in Hizb ut-Tahrir organisation, which is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.
In February 2019, a criminal case was opened against eight individuals involved in the so-called second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Marlen Asanov, Seiran Saliiev, Timur Ibrahimov, Memet Belyalov, Ernest Ametov, Server Zakiryaev, Server Mustafayev and Edem Smailov (“Violent seizure of power or violent retention of power”).
On March 5, it became known that the two defendants in the so-called second Bakhchysarai Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Timur Ibrahimov and Memet Belyalov – had their charge tightened from part two of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (“participation in the activities of a terrorist organization”) to the part one (“organization of the activities of a terrorist organization”).
On September 16, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don announced the verdict to the defendants in the second so-called Bakhchisaray