Political prisoner Remzi Bekirov, who was sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment, is currently held in pre-trial detention centre-1 of Krasnoyarsk. This is reported by Crimean Solidarity.
His wife Khalide Bekirova received information about this in a response from the deputy head of the Main Department of the FSIN in Krasnoyarsk region Evgeny Stepanov. The day before she addressed the agency with a written request.
We would like to remind that on 27 March 2019, Russian security forces in the occupied Crimea conducted mass searches in 26 houses of Crimean Tatars. As a result, 20 people were detained, who are suspected of involvement in the ‘Hizb ut-Tahrir’ organisation banned in rf.
Subsequently, the arrests of political prisoners were repeatedly extended, and some of them have already been sentenced. For example, Remzi Bekirov was sentenced by a Russian court to 19 years in prison. He must serve the first 5 years in prison, and the rest of the time – in a strict regime penal colony with a restriction of 1 year 6 months.