In 2023, at least 52 cases of violation of the right to the highest attainable level of physical and mental health were recorded in occupied Crimea, 43 in relation to Crimean Tatars. During the same period in 2022, 36 violations were recorded, and in 2021 – 135. This is stated in the Analysis of Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Crimea of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.
In relation to whom this right was violated, you can find out here.
These cases of violations are associated with the deterioration of the health of political prisoners in places of detention, ignoring the requests of lawyers and prisoners themselves, and the failure to provide adequate medical care.
Moreover, due to the failure to provide adequate medical care in Russian places of detention, two political prisoners died: Dzhemil Gafarov and Kostiantyn Shyrynh.
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center notes that the occupiers are now keeping behind bars both elderly people and people with disabilities who are seriously ill. Due to inadequate conditions of detention in pre-trial detention centers and prisons, due to systemic ignoring of complaints about their well-being, and due to inadequate and untimely medical care, their health continues to deteriorate. And this can lead to disastrous consequences.
We demand that the Russian Federation immediately release all political prisoners, and also stop systematically violating human rights in the occupied Crimea.