Prison guards refuse to accept vital medicines for political prisoner Gafarov

June 11, 2020

Guards of the pre-trial prison in Simferopol refused to accept the transfer of vitally important medicines to the defendant of the second Simferopol “Hizb ut-Tahrir case” Dzhemil Gafarov. The Crimean Tatar Resource Center was informed about this by his wife Razie.

"Yesterday, the guard of the pre-trial detention refused to accept the medicine  "Polysorb", saying that it was not a medicine. Dzhemil takes it, because it removes intoxication and was prescribed  by the doctor to be taken for life in chronic renal failure of 4 stage to relieve constant intoxication,"- explained the spouse.

We remind that on March 27, 2019, Russian security forces in the occupied Crimea carried out mass searches in 26 Crimean Tatars' dwellings. Literature was seized from some activists, which, according to Crimean Solidarity, the security forces planted themselves. In addition to books and brochures, people were confiscated phones, tablets, laptops, passports. The servicemen behaved rudely. It is reported that they used physical force against detainees and entered the houses in shoes. Lawyers who arrived at the site of the searches were not allowed to contact the detainees. According to the results of the searches, 20 people were suspected of involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, which is banned in the Russian Federation. On March 28, three more Crimean Tatar activists were detained, in whose dwellings searches were carried out in their absence. On March 27-28, the occupation court arrested all 23 detainees after searches. They chose a preventive measure in the form of detention. Subsequently, all the individuals involved in this so-called case were repeatedly extended the terms of their arrest.