Under the conditions of a coronavirus infection, the so-called second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case defendant, Akim Bekirov, is not given any remedies in jail. This was reported to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center by his wife Sabriie, adding that normally health workers conduct daily visits to cells and ask about the health status of political prisoners, but this was the case before the pandemic.
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“In general, nothing has changed during the quarantine period associated with the coronavirus. They don’t give him any protection. They only him an antiseptic. He’s not complaining about his health either. He says, that everything is okay. Every day they have a detour, a nurse comes or the doctor asks about his healthm whether there are any complaints. But that was the case before the coronavirus pandemic”,- said the wife.
Sabriie noted that the political prisoner does not complain about the conditions of detention, but there are complaints about food, as they bring food with pork, which Muslims are forbidden to consume. He mostly eats the food from the parcels and purchases it at a local store.
“We don’t have any dates or calls. Communication takes place through letters or through a lawyer. Letters are censored. My husband receives them with delays. I also send him parcels with groceries. Parcels are not picked up from the post office regularly, sometimes they stay at the post office for a week or two”,- she added.
We remind that on March 27, 2019, Russian security forces in the occupied Crimea carried out mass searches in 26 Crimean Tatars' dwellings. Literature was seized from some activists, which, according to Crimean Solidarity, the security forces planted themselves. In addition to books and brochures, people were confiscated phones, tablets, laptops, passports. The servicemen behaved rudely. It is reported that they used physical force against detainees and entered the houses in shoes. Lawyers who arrived at the site of the searches were not allowed to contact the detainees. According to the results of the searches, 20 people were suspected of involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, which is banned in the Russian Federation. On March 28, three more Crimean Tatar activists were detained, in whose dwellings searches were carried out in their absence. On March 27-28, the occupation court arrested all 23 detainees after searches. They chose a preventive measure in the form of detention. Subsequently, all the individuals involved in this so-called case were repeatedly extended the terms of their arrest.