According to lawyers, court hearings on the merits will begin in Rostov-on-Don on August 12.
from Crimea to Rostov-on-Don
Political prisoners from Bakhchisarai in the temporarily occupied Crimea Abdulmedzhit Seitumerov, Ametkhan Umerov, Eldar Yakubov, Seydamet Mustafaev, Remzi Nemetulaev and Ruslan Asanov were transferred to Rostov-on-Don. on Aisha Yakubova.
“In July, I gave my husband things to the Crimean detention center – through activists who help us. They were informed that Eldar and the other defendants in this criminal case were not in the detention center, and that they had been taken out,” said Aishe Yakubova, Eldar Yakubov’s wife.
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According to the lawyers, court hearings on the merits will begin in Rostov-on-Don on August 12.
On August 24 last year, FSB officers broke into the homes of six Crimean Tatars and arrested them in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case.
What is happening to Hizb ut-Tahrir members in Crimea
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Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Islamic political party founded in 1953 in East Jerusalem by the local Sharia Court of Appeals judge Takiyuddin al-Nabghani. Hizb ut-Tahrir is recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia and Kazakhstan. In Germany, the organization's activities were also banned due to its non-recognition of Israel, but this ban only applies to the party's public activities, and German law enforcement agencies do not prosecute Hizb ut-Tahrir members. In all other European countries and the United States, the party operates legally and publicly.
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The religious center “Hizb ut-Tahrir” is considered a terrorist organization in Russia and the Crimea occupied by it. According to the Russian human rights media project “OVS-info”, members of the cells of the religious organization “Hizb ut-Tahrir” are condemned only for the fact that they meet and read religious literature.
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The Russian occupation administration transferred activist Azamat Eyupov from Belogorsk from Crimea to a prison in the city of Verkhneuralsk in the Chelyabinsk region. He was previously sentenced to 17 years in prison. Let us recall that on July 19, 2022, the Southern District Military Court of the temporarily occupied Crimea sentenced Crimean Tatar activist Azamat Eyupov to 17 years in a maximum security penal colony. He was detained on February 17, 2021 in Belogorsk. He is accused of “organizing terrorist activity” and involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir.
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On June 16, the Southern District Military Court sentenced Crimean Solidarity activist Ansar Osmanov to 20 years in prison. He must spend the first five years in prison. Ansar Osmanov is accused by the Russian occupiers of organizing the activities of the Islamic political organization Hizb ut-Tahrir.
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The Southern District Military Court of Russia sentenced Ernes Seitosmanov, a defendant in the “Crimean Muslims” case, to 18 years in a maximum security penal colony. Ernes Seitosmanov was tried for organizing the activities of the Islamic political party Hizb ut-Tahrir.
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Ukrainian political prisoner in the “Hizb ut-Tahrir case” Dzhemil Gafarov died in a pretrial detention center in the Russian city of Novocherkassk.
- In Russia, Crimean imam Raif Fevziev was sentenced to 17 years in prison. He was accused of participating in the Islamic political party “Hizb ut-Tahrir”.