Human rights activist Emir-Huseyn Kuku returned to prison after surgery

July 7, 2023

Emir-Usein Kuku was sent back to the Salavat colony after an operation on the intestines. It is reported by the Crimean Solidarity.

During the transfer to the city hospital, they gave him painkillers, called an ambulance, and sent him only in the evening. For three days, doctors could not understand what was happening to him. The wife noted that the man had no problems with the intestines before. However, there were also problems with the kidneys, because of which the doctors thought that they were the ones that hurt, and only later removed the adhesions in the intestines.

His wife Meryem Kuku said that on July 5, her husband contacted her: he was discharged last week, despite the recommendation to remain under medical supervision for one to two weeks.

“I don’t know what it is about. Little was explained to him either, he wanted to see the documents himself. There is no talk of any care in prison at all. An operation on the intestines involves a very sparing diet”,- said the wife of a convicted human rights activist.

We remind you that Emir-Huseyn Kuku, Vadym Siruk, Muslim Aliev, Enver Bekirov, Arsen Dzhepparov and Refat Alimov are accused of participation in the organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned in the Russian Federation. They are charged with Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of the activities of a terrorist organization and participation in it). Later they began to impute Article 278 of the Criminal Code (Forced seizure of power or forcible retention of power). On October 11, during a court session in the Southern District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don, the prosecutor requested 13 to 20 years in prison for the so-called Yalta Hizb ut-Tahrir case defendants. On November 12, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don announced the sentence. Muslim Aliev and Enver Bekirov were sentenced to 19 and 18 years in a maximum security penal colony, Emir-Huseyn Kuku and Vadym Siruk – to 12 years, Refat Alimov – to 8 years, Arsen Dzhepparov – to 7 years.