Persons involved in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case were transferred to a colony

Crimean Tatars Zevri Abseitov, Enver Mamutov, Rustem Abiltarov and Remzi Memetov, convicted in the first Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case, were transported from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Rostov-on-Don. This was reported on the website “Crimea. Realities."

Abseitov was transferred to IK No. 1 in the village of Kochubeevskoye, Stavropol Territory, Mamutov and Memetov were transferred to IK No. 11 in Mikhailovsk in the same region of Russia.

Abseitov was immediately placed in a punishment cell, citing the fact that Abseitov had a “terrorist offense”. Mamutov and Memetov are still in the quarantine department of Penal Colony No. 11, where all new arrivals are placed.

It is not yet known where the fourth person involved in the case, Rustem Abiltarov, was taken. The last time Mamutov and Memetov saw him was in a transfer cell in the Pyatigorsk pre-trial detention center.

• There are four defendants in the Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case: Remzi Memetov, Rustem Abiltarov, Envera Mamutov and Zevri Abseitov. They were arrested in May 2016, after searches in Bakhchisaray .
• The court of first instance sentenced Abseitov to 17 years in prison, Abiltarov, Mamutov and Memetov to 9 years. Later the punishment was slightly softened. Abseitov, in the end, received 16 years and 9 months, the rest - 8 years and 9 months.
• Hizb ut-Tahrir is a religious movement banned in Russia as terrorist (unfoundedly, according to some experts). Cases of terrorism have been opened in different regions of the country, while members of the organization’s cells are accused and sentenced to various terms in a maximum security colony only on the basis that they met in apartments, read religious literature and recruited new members.