For 9 months of 2020, 33 cases of transfer of political prisoners of Crimea were recorded, 27 of which were against representatives of the indigenous people. Last year, 69 cases of transfer were reported over the same period. This is stated in the analysis of human rights violations in Crimea for 9 months of 2020 by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.
During the reporting period, the following persons were subject to such a violation: the defendants in the so-called Krasnohvardiiske Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Rustem Emiruseinov, Arsen Abkhairov, Eskender Abdulhaniev, the defendants in the so -called Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Teymur Abdullaev and Uzeir Abdullaev, Ayder Saledinov, Rustem Ismailov, Emil Dzhemadenov and Seytveli Seytabdiev, the defendants in the so-called case of Ukrainian saboteurs – Vladimir Dudka and Oleksiy Bessarabov, the defendants in the so-called Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Enver Omerov, Riza Omerov, Ayder Dzhapparov, Ruslan Mesutov, Eldar Kantimirov, Ruslan Nagayev and Lenur Khalilov, Jehovah’s Witnesses – Sergiy Filatov, Artem Gerasimov, the defendants in the so-called Yalta Hizb ut-Tahrir case – Emir-Husein Kuku and Muslim Aliev, as well as Og Prykhodko, Ruslan Suleimanov, Enver Seytosmanov and Nariman Memediminov.
Some political prisoners were subjected to illegal transfer twice.
We remind that for 9 months of 2020, at least 40 searches were recorded in the occupied Crimea, 25 of which were in the houses of Crimean Tatars, 68 arrests, 28 of which were against Crimean Tatars, 70 cases of interrogations, interviews and conversations, 34 of which – against representatives of the Crimean Tatar people, as well as 195 cases of arrests, 152 of which – against representatives of the indigenous people. In addition, 332 cases of violations of the right to a fair trial were recorded, 277 of which were against representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people and 112 cases of violation of the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, 91 of which were against Crimean Tatars.