A court in Crimea upheld the arrest of those involved in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case.

On August 30, the Crimean Supreme Court left under arrest five defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Simferopol: Ayder Saledinov, Rustem Ismailov, Uzair Abdullayev, Teymur Abdullayev and Emil Dzhemadenov, rejecting the appeal. about it Writes "Crimea. Realities".

the term of arrest for the defendants in the case by two months On August 9, the Kievsky District Court of Simferopol extended .

Saledinov and Ismailov, Teymur Abdullayev, Uzeyir Abdullayev and Emil Dzhemadenov are accused of involvement in the activities of a terrorist organization. Teymur Abdullayev is considered by the investigation to be the organizer of the Hizb ut-Tahrir cell. In March, he was placed in a punishment cell in a pre-trial detention center because he wrote a letter in the Crimean Tatar language.

All five were detained and arrested in November 2016 after a series of searches in the homes of Crimean Tatars. In December of the same year, Saledinov, Ismailov and Uzeyir Abdullayev stated that they were beaten by FSB officers while being transported to the investigation.

In February, Saledinov and Ismailov were sent to a hospital for a psychiatric examination.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia. Terrorism cases have been opened in different regions of the country, while members of the cells of the organization are accused and sentenced to various terms in a strict regime colony only on the basis that they met in apartments, read religious literature and recruited new members.

According to a number of experts, Hizb ut-Tahrir was unlawfully recognized as a terrorist organization, since its members in Russia did not prepare or carry out terrorist acts.