The lawyer of the so-called second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case defendant Dzhemil Gafarov Rifat Yakhin, since January, has not been able to receive information and documents confirming the proper maintenance of a political prisoner who has the second group disability. This was reported by the defender via his page in Telegram.
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“On January 31, and again on April 23, attorney’s requests were sent to Medical Unit N3 of MSCh-91 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, which provides medical services to detainees of the Crimean pre-trial detention center, to provide information and documents confirming the proper maintenance of my client, a person who has the second group disability – Dzhemil Gafarov. He has chronically ill kidneys. In violation of the law, information has not been provided to date”,- said lawyer Yakhin in a statement.
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.