Political prisoner Servet Gaziev suffered a microstroke

July 9, 2021

The defendant in the so-called second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Servet Gaziev, suffered a microstroke in a Russian pre-trial detention center. An ambulance was called for him. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity public association.

Servet Gaziev suffers from pain in the back of his head, heart and all chronic diseases that had worried him earlier. At the same time, no assistance is provided to the political prisoner. On June 28, he had a microstroke.

“Now he has a visually beveled right corner of his mouth and right eye. Unfortunately, you cannot take photographs – the convoy does not allow bringing in technical means for this”,- the message said.

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.