Political prisoners and defendant of Second Simferopol “Hizb ut-Tahrir case” Belyal Adilov declared a dry hunger strike to protest the “outrageous conditions in the detention facility”. As reported by journalist, Anton Naumliuk, Adilov is on a hunger strike in Rostov detention center №1 since 20 August.
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“On video call, it was clear that he does not look well. We turned to paramedics who visited Adilov, but his low blood pressure did not preclude him from participating in today’s hearing”, said his attorney Liudmila Tiurenkova.
The journalist reminded that the defendants of “Hizb ut-Tahrir case” in Rostov detention center have asked the infirmary administration numerous times to improve their conditions, which resulted in Adilov’s transfer into another cell with the far worse conditions and dampness that suffocated him.
“He tried to draw the attention of the security guards but they did not react. So he had to tear wires in his cell so that they at least got him out of the cell where he could not breathe. Afterward, he was put in a solitary confinement cell for fifteen days”, – said Naumliuk.
Defendants’ attorneys relate the intentionally bad detention conditions with their active position in the detention facilities, where they demand betterment of the conditions for all inmates, and also with their behavior in the courtroom, where they constantly file motions, especially for recusal of the judge and state accusers.
Previously, on March 27, Russian police forces conducted twenty-six mass searches in the Crimean Tatar houses in the occupied Crimea. They confiscated some literature that, according to the Crimean Solidarity, was placed there by the police itself. Besides books and leaflets, they also confiscated cell phones, tablets, laptops, and passports. The policemen were rude, did not bother to take their shoes off when entering the house and used physical force. Lawyers arriving at the places of searches were not allowed to talk to their clients. As a result, twenty people were charged with links to the illegal in Russia organization “Hizb ut-Tahrir”. On March 28, after another police raid, three more Crimean Tatar activists have been arrested. The whereabouts of another Crimean Tatar, Edem Yayachikov, is currently unknown. The same day, on March 27-28, a Russian court in Crimea sentenced all twenty-three activists until 15 May. All of them are accused of being linked to the “Hizb ut-Tahrir”. In August, court hearings are held to continue the detention of the defendants of Second Simferopol “Hizb ut-Tahrir” case. They will remain under arrest until November 14-15, 2019.