The prosecutor has asked for 17 years of strict regime imprisonment for 41-year-old Osman Abdurazakov, 51-year-old Leman Zekeryaev, 31-year-old Ayder Asanov, and 39-year-old Ekrem Krosh. They want to sentence 69-year-old Khalil Mambetov and 55-year-old Refat Seidametov to 17 and a half years of imprisonment.

Asanov's mother reported that law enforcement officers beat her son during the search. The wives of two other arrested people suggested that the security forces could have planted banned books.

Six Crimean Tatars were detained in January 2023 after searches under the article on participation in the activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir party, which is considered terrorist in the Russian Federation. The defendants were also charged with the article on the violent seizure of power.

Since January 2015, in Crimea, which came under the de facto control of Russia, criminal cases on Hizb ut-Tahrir have been opened en masse. The party's activities are not banned in Ukraine. Before the peninsula came under the control of the Russian Federation, the activists of the organization were publishing a newspaper, could speak openly in the media and hold mass public events.

According to human rights activists, the party members are being persecuted not for preparing a coup d'etat and terrorism, but for criticizing the Russian authorities and the repressions in Crimea. In total, Memorial has recognized 280 defendants in cases of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir as political prisoners.