On June 1, Crimean Tatars Asan and Aziz Akhtemov were transferred to a new pre-trial detention center in Akmesdzhit (Simferopol). This is reported by Leviza Dzhelyalova on her Facebook page.
According to her, the conditions of detention in the pre-trial detention center 2 are stricter than other detention facilities: in the cells from six in the morning to ten in the evening, you can’t sit or lie down. Also, prisoners are forbidden to look into the eyes of the pre-trial detention center staff and are forced to memorize the Russian anthem.
“Any failure to comply with these requirements by the pre-trial detention center workers was followed by punishment in the form of downtime in an uncomfortable position for the body, such as in a bent position at an angle of 90 degrees with the head down and hands up behind the back, or severe moral or psychological pressure”,- Leviza Dzhelyalova said.
Due to such conditions, Asan Akhtemov’s back pain worsened.
Lawyers for political prisoners appealed to the administration of the pre-trial detention center and pointed out problems with the conditions of detention and treatment.
We remind you that on September 3-4 in the occupied Crimea, the houses of the Crimean Tatars Eldar Odamanov, Aziz Akhtemov, Shevket Useinov, Asan Akhtemov and Nariman Dzhelyal were searched. The security forces confiscated the equipment and took the men with them. Later it became known that Nariman Dzhelyal and cousins Aziz and Asan Akhtemov were suspected of complicity in the sabotage. The occupants claim that they are involved in the damage to the gas pipeline in the village of Perevalne, Simferopol district of Crimea. On September 6, the so-called Russian court in the occupied Crimea arrested the First Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Nariman Dzhelyalov, as well as the brothers Aziz and Asan Akhtemov.