The Russian Supreme Court has dismissed the cassation appeal in the case against Crimean citizen journalist Seyran Saliyev, his wife Mumine Saliyeva reported in a Facebook post.
Saliyeva quoted her husband as saying that the penal facility where he was detained would soon be dismantled and he would be moved to an unknown location.
Mumine Saliyeva also shared a video of herself visiting her husband in the colony with her children.
Seyran Saliyev is a citizen journalist, Crimean Solidarity streamer. Detained in occupied Bağçasaray on 11 October 2017 along with five other Crimean Tatars. He was charged with preparing sabotage operations in Crimea on the Ukrainian intelligence’s orders. Sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2020 on fabricated terrorism charges in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. Serves his unlawful sentence in a Tula region prison (Russia). In 2021, an appeal court reduced his prison term to 15 years, dropping the charges on one count.
It was reported in June 2025 that the administration of the Russian prison administration where Seyran Saliyev was detained kept him in solitary confinement.
Seyran Saliyev is on the Institute of Mass Information’s list of Ukrainian journalists detained by Russia.