International Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated on Friday, December 3. This day reminds all countries of the importance of creating decent living conditions for people with special health conditions. However, the Russian Federation does not comply with these principles, and due to the occupation of Crimea in 2014, persons with disabilities were also forced to suffer.
Today, according to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, the FSB's torture chambers contain:
Zekirya Muratov – disabled person of the third group
Oleksandr Syzykov – disabled person of the first group
Dzhemil Gafarov – disabled person of the second group
Timur Ibrahimov – disabled person of the third group
Servet Gaziev – disabled person of the second group
These people are seriously ill and have disabilities. Due to inadequate conditions of detention in pre-trial detention centers and prisons, due to the systemic ignoring of complaints about their well-being, due to inadequate and untimely medical care, their health condition continues to deteriorate.
By these actions, the Russian Federation violates the rights of political prisoners to a high attainable standard of physical and mental health. Moreover, according to the legislation of the Russian Federation, seriously ill people should be released from custody, since a person's life is the highest value, the sentence should not become lethal.
We demand from the Russian Federation to immediately release the aforementioned persons and all other political prisoners, as well as to stop systematically violating human rights in the occupied Crimea.