Server Mustafayev

Server Rustemovych Mustafayev (, born 5 May 1986) is a Crimean Tatar human rights defender and coordinator of the civil rights organization Crimean Solidarity.

Life Mustafayev was born on 5 May 1986, in Ziadin. His family returned to Crimea where he lived in Bakhchysarai. In 2014 Mustafayev began to actively help families of political prisoners and became one of the coordinators of the civil rights organization Crimean Solidarity, whose activities are aimed at providing legal assistance to the families of political prisoners of Crimea.

On 16 September 2020, Mustafayev was sentenced by a Russian military court to fourteen years in a strict regime penal colony.

Reaction The Russian civil rights society Memorial has included Server Mustafayev in the "Support program for political prisoners". According to Human Rights Watch the sentenced prison terms against Mustafayev and six other Crimean Tatars are part of a pattern of politically motivated prosecutions that have been happening since the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.

In June 2018 the European Parliament adopted a resolution in which it demands Russian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release illegally detained Ukrainian citizens including Server Mustafayev.

The United States Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe declared its concern about the health conditions of Crimean Tatar political prisoners, including Server Mustafayev and called for his release.

On 10 December 2022 Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties, mentioned Server Mustafayev in the Nobel Lecture given at the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony: "The international system of peace and security does not work anymore. Crimean Tatar Server Mustafayev as well as many others are put in Russian prisons because of their human rights work".

Awards On 21 August 2020, Mustafayev was awarded by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky with the Order of Merit.

On 21 May 2025, Mustafayev was awarded the Alfred Moses Liberty Award by Freedom House.