The defendant in the so-called Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Simferopol, Uzeir Abdullaev, who served 15 days in a punishment cell, said that an order from above came: to get us all to the punishment cell. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity public association.
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The political prisoner called his wife through the prison communications Zonatelecom. Uzeir Abdullaev believes that he was placed in a punishment cell so that he would not meet with the Ukrainian consul, and he also heard from the colony staff that an order from above came: to get them all to the 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.