Political prisoner Rustem Sheykhaliev was taken to the medical unit because he had a nosebleed. His wife Surie Sheykhalieva reported this to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.
Today, January 16, Rustem was supposed to participate in the appeal session against his sentence, but due to a nosebleed he was taken to the medical unit. Surie added that the staff of pre-trial detention center 3 in Novocherkassk told her that they were able to stop the bleeding. They had no information as to whether the bleeding started again.
“Also, during an informal conversation, so to speak, with the defenders, Rustem Sheykhaliev complained about the terrible conditions of detention in pre-trial detention center number three in Novocherkassk, said that for several days they had no water in the cell and the tap was broken, the administration refused to fix their tap, and Not only mice are running around in the cell, but also huge rats, whose tails are 20 cm long. These rats manage to climb onto the upper tiers of bunk beds, and they have to sleep in turns to prevent these rats from biting”,- the human rights activist Hemedzhi quotes Surie.
In addition, a few days before, Sheykhaliev asked for an ECG.
“There is no sanitation, and the administration of the pre-trial detention center ignores the statement about the need to carry out medical tests on our clients, in particular, to make an electrocardiogram for Rustem Sheikhaliev, which actually leads to deaths in the pre-trial detention center”,- she adds.
According to the human rights activist, it is known that Rustem himself recently reported the death of another arrested person, who was also held in pre-trial detention center 3 in Novocherkassk.
“Since last year, we have already known, in addition to Dzhemil Gafarov, about the second person who died in the pre-trial detention center, and according to our clients, this detainee also died as a result of failure to provide adequate medical care”,- she explains.
We remind you that on March 27, 2019, Russian security forces in the occupied Crimea conducted mass searches in 26 houses of Crimean Tatars. Literature was confiscated from some activists, which, according to Crimean Solidarity, the security forces themselves planted. In addition to books and brochures, phones, tablets, laptops, and passports were confiscated from people. The security forces behaved rudely. They reportedly used physical force against the detainees. They entered the house in shoes. Lawyers who arrived at the site of the searches were not allowed to see their clients. According to the results, 20 people were detained, who are suspected of involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization banned in the Russian Federation. On March 28, three more Crimean Tatar activists were detained, and searches were carried out in their homes in their absence. On March 27-28, the occupation court arrested all 23 Crimean Tatar activists detained after searches. They chose a measure of restraint in the form of detention. Subsequently, all the defendants in the so-called case were repeatedly extended the terms of arrest.