Mustafayev Server
Civic journalist, coordinator and streamer of the Crimean Solidarity NGO, human rights activist. Imprisoned for political reason in the Russian Federation since May 2018.
Date of birth: 05.05.1986
Date of detention: 21.05.2018
Sentence: 14 years in prison
Public ambassador: Myroslav Marynovych
Details of the case:
Born on May 5, 1986, Server Mustafayev is a Crimean Tatar and father of 4. He is a co-founder of the Crimean Solidarity association. Mustafayev publicly advocated for the victims of political persecutions and covered the violations of human rights in Crimea. He graduated from a construction college in Bakhchysarai. He worked as a salesman, later he became a manager at the Euronet’s communication room.
In May 2018, Russian security forces arrested him at his own house during the search conducted on trumped-up charges. Server Mustafayev has been imprisoned under the article 205.5, chapter 2 of the Russian Federation’s Criminal Code ("Providing the activity of an organization recognized as terroristic in the accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation") and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony. He is held in the colony №1 in the city of Tambov, Russian Federation.
"Despite of verdicts and continuing injustice, we do not give up and we are not discouraged. All of us are witnesses that the duty of each of us is to clear the slander they hung on our people and religion today and throughout history," Server Mustafayev, 17 May 2021.
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