Following the arrest, all four men were put into the detention facility in Simferopol, where they spent two years. On May 22, 2018 Abseitov and the other three co-accused Crimean Tatars were transported from the detention facility in Simferopol to Rostov-on-Don in Russia. The prosecution in the court was based solely on the testimonies of three secret witnesses and an examination commissioned by the FSB. One of the witnesses claimed, he had to see Abseitov at his dental office and then they were gone to a café where Abseitov told him that he was involved in Hizb-ut-Tahrir. Under cross-examination, this witness gave a completely wrong description of Abseitov’s office and could not describe the café, he had purportedly visited with Abseitov.. The court ignored evidence that witnesses were giving inconsistent testimonies and their charges were unfounded. On December 24, 2018 judges of the North Caucuses Military Court in Rostov-on-Don Roman Plisko, Anatoly Kolesnik and Igor Kostin convicted all four Crimean Tatars and sentenced Enver Mamutov to 17 years in a high-security prison and 1 year and 6 months of supervised release. Zevri Abseitov, Remzi Memetov, and Rustem Abiltarov were sentenced to 9 years in a high-security prison and 1 year of supervised release. In his final statement, Abseitov stressed his innocence and called the case “politically motivated”. On July 11, 2019 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation got three months off their sentences – Enver Memutov got sixteen years and nine months instead of seventeen years; Zevri Abseitov, Remzi Memetov, and Rustem Abiltarov got eight years and nine months instead of nine years. Ukrainian Consul Taras Malyshevskyi tried to get access to Abseitov, but Russian authorities have denied Abseitov Ukrainian consular assistance, claiming that he was a Russian citizen. The highly politicized "Bakhchysarai Hizb-ut-Tahrir case" has resonated in Ukraine and worldwide. Official Kyiv added Zevri Abseitov to a list of the Prisoners of the Kremlin. The Ukrainian Helsinki Group has considered this case a politically-motivated persecution exercised by the occupying authorities against disloyal individuals. Kharkiv Human Rights Protection group and the Memorial Human Rights Center consider Zevri Abseitov a Political Prisoner of War.