persecute everyone, including the elderly and people with disabilities who are seriously ill.
Currently, according to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, they are being held in FSB prisons:
Zekirya Muratov – disability group 3
Oleksandr Sizikov – disability group 1
Timur Ibragimov – disability group 3
These people are seriously ill. Due to inadequate conditions of
detention in pre-trial detention centers and prisons, due to
systematic ignoring of complaints about their health, due to
inadequate and untimely medical care, their health condition continues to deteriorate. And, unfortunately, we have already seen the deplorable consequences when 60-year-old political prisoner with a disabilitygroup 2 , Dzhemil Gafarov, and 61-year-old Konstantin Shiring, who had health problems, died.
Moreover, there has been an increase in the number of violations of the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in the occupied Crimea. Thus, according to the CTRC, at least 40 such violations were recorded in the first 9 months of 2024, 36 of them against Crimean Tatars. For the same period in 2023, 40 (31) were recorded, and in 2022 – 25 (24).
By these actions, the Russian Federation violates the rights of
political prisoners to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. Even according to Russian law, seriously ill people should be released from custody, as human life is the highest value, and the sentence should not be a death sentence.
We demand that the Russian Federation immediately release the
above-mentioned persons and all other political prisoners, and stop systematically violating human rights in the occupied Crimea.