Server was arrested on May 21, 2018, on trumped-up charges of allegedly “preparing for a violent seizure of power” and participation in the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is recognized as a terrorist organization in the Russian Federation.

In September 2020, the occupiers illegally sentenced Mustafayev to 14 years in prison in a maximum security colony. Since September 3, 2022, the political prisoner has been held in a transit and transfer point in the Tambov region.

In his letter to Myroslav Marynovych dated November 30, 2022, Server Mustafayev wrote:

“To be honest, the first enemy for the Russian Federation is not someone from the outside, but itself. The ideological vice, lawlessness, and corruption that are present everywhere will destroy both the state and the people themselves, but it will take time.

What is happening today is a catalyst for this process, so I see, insha Allah, a quick return home, to my native Ukrainian land and to my parental home next to all my indomitable and united Crimean Tatar people. Amen.”

On Server’s birthday, we urge you to join our initiative to support Crimean political prisoners, Letters to a Free Crimea. Each and every one of you can write a letter to illegally imprisoned Ukrainians who are being held by the occupation administrations in the occupied Crimea or deported to the territory of the Russian Federation.

How to write a letter, to whom to address it and where to send it – here