His wife, Alime, was left alone with five children. She recalls the day of the search: “It is impossible to forget such a day. I took care of the child in the morning and then I heard an incredible knock and noise. I didn't even have time to approach the child again, as the glass was broken and masked people broke into my house". Alime says that she did not have time to understand what was happening when one of the security officers started demanding her phone. Later, her husband, Teymur, was handcuffed and his clothes were dusted. It was later revealed that the security forces threw him on the floor and hit him in the kidneys several times. The search began in the children's room, the two youngest children were still asleep and on Alime's recollections, Russian security officers began pulling a blanket from the sleeping children and searching the school bag of the eldest son, Ali. The boy, frightened, asked his mother: "Did they come to kill us"?

Teymur spent two years with other Crimean Tatars in the Simferopol pre-trial detention centre. Representatives of Ukrainian and international organizations, including the Memorial Human Rights Center, call all participants in the so-called "Hizb ut-Tahrir cases" political prisoners of the Kremlin. On the 18 of June 2019, the North Caucasus District Military Court (Southern District Court of Rostov-on-Don) handed down a guilty verdict and found all five Muslims guilty of organizing and participating in a terrorist organization. Teymur Abdullayev was sentenced to 17 years in prison. The term of appeal was reduced by six months. Now Abdullayev is in colony G2 in the Republic of Bashkortostan. As soon as he arrived at the colony, in March 2020, he was immediately approached by the staff of the E Center with a conversation. Alime's wife does not go into details, but says that her husband was tried to "break or recruit." After Teymur Abdulayev refused to cooperate, Alime learned that her husband was in jail. The first reason was formal: "I did not greet the warden in the colony". However, each time Teymour's term in the remand centre expired, it was extended. The reasons were completely different: talking to other prisoners through the window, not making the bed, lying in bed during the day, and so on. The wife of the political prisoner says that even her cellmates began to wonder: "they say they have never been sent to a pre-trial detention centre in the colony for such mistakes, why did they start now and only in relation to Abdullayev?"

The penalty isolator assumes that the person is alone in the basement cell. The bed is attached to the wall and during the day, the prisoner is forced to stand all the time. He is also forbidden to see, telephone, receive parcels, transfers and parcels, purchase any goods, smoke, is forbidden to bring food and personal belongings, except for basic necessities. Alime says that when the man called once during the extension of his detention, he said that the humidity in the cell was high: “the humidity in the pre-trial detention centre is at such a level that socks can simply be squeezed out of the water in the evening after a day there. Against this background, the man's health deteriorated markedly. Renal failure worsened, his blood pressure began to rise, and his eyesight began to drop".

Abdullayev's daughter, Raikhan, is nine years old and has been painting for several months. Looking at the pictures, Reihan comments on what he drew: “Here I drew the Black Sea, which my father loves so much. And here are the mountains of the Urals, where he is now. And in this picture - the dream and long-awaited plane on which you will return home. As soon as it comes to the children, Alime apologizes and goes to another room. She recalls that when Teymur was first arrested, there were always journalists in their house. "One day when guests just came to us, Reihan approached them and asked if they were journalists. When they said no, the daughter was upset and said, - "It's a pity I thought you would help me tell everyone how good my father is".

Now Teymur's brother, Uzeir, is also being transferred to a pre-trial detention centre. He is in solitary confinement for 10 days.