The court approved the sentence for the defendants in the third Simferopol group "Hizb ut-Tahrir"

The military appeal court in Vlasikha near Moscow confirmed the verdict of the defendants in the third Simferopol group of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Lenur Seydametov and Timur Yalkabov. “Crimean Solidarity” is about this.

reports In March, the Southern District Military Court of Yalkabov and Seidametov to 17 and 13 years in a maximum security colony. Both convicts will have to spend the first four years of their sentence in prison. In addition, restriction of freedom was added to the punishment after leaving the colony: a year and a half for Yalkabov and a year for Seidametov.

sentenced to prison. The men were found guilty under articles on the activities of a terrorist organization: Yalkabov was charged with organizing it (Part 1 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code), and Seidametov was charged with participating in it (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). In addition, both were accused of preparing for an armed seizure of power (Article 278 of the Criminal Code using Article 30 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the men held “conspiracy meetings” of the Hizb ut-Tahrir party in one of the houses in Simferopol.

Lenur Seidametov and Timur Yalkabov were arrested on February 17, 2021. This happened after mass protests took place in Crimea in the morning of the same day. At least seven people, including Seidametov and Yalkabov, became defendants in criminal cases of organizing the activities of a terrorist organization and participating in it.

searches - 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 Information and Analytical Center and the project, the party was unlawfully recognized as terrorist in Russia. “Sova” “Support for political prisoners. Memorial” , - According to the project “Help 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