A person involved in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case who disappeared during transfer has been found in the Orsk pre-trial detention center

Albert Shafiev’s mother said that the lawyer managed to find her son in pre-trial detention center-2 in Orsk. On November 4, she reported that after he was taken to pre-trial detention center-1 in Orenburg.

disappeared As the woman managed to find out, her son went on a hunger strike because of the conditions of detention in the Orenburg detention center: the prisoners in his cell did not even have water, so they, together with prisoners in other cells, went on a hunger strike. Now Shafiev has stopped the action.

Shafiev, when being transported from prison in the city of Balashov (Saratov region) to IK-5 in the Orenburg region, the penultimate point of the stage was initially supposed to be pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Orenburg. On November 2, a stranger called Shafiev’s mother, introducing himself as a lawyer, and said that Shafiev had gone on a hunger strike in this pre-trial detention center. She asked the man to come on a date with her son, however, according to the woman’s interlocutor, the institution told him that Shafiev was being transported to an unknown direction.

disappeared In 2017, Shafiev was sentenced to 16 years in prison under the article on organizing the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 1 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code).

• The Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir was recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia. Its participants are accused and sentenced to real terms only on the basis that they met in apartments, read religious literature and recruited new participants. According to the SOVA Information and Analytical Center, the party was unlawfully recognized as terrorist in Russia. opinion - According to the project “Assistance to political prisoners. Memorial" as of October 27, 2022, at least 336 people are being persecuted in connection with their involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, of which 27 are wanted. At least 244 people were convicted, of which 102 defendants were sentenced to terms of more than fifteen years in prison. In total, Memorial recognized 266 persons involved in cases of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami as political prisoners (221 of them are currently being prosecuted, and 45 of them were released after serving their sentences). data