Activist and political prisoner Raim Ayvazov was taken to the Dimitrovgrad prison in the Ulyanovsk region of Russia. This was reported by his wife Mavile Ayvazova to the Crimean Solidarity.
“Prison clothing, badge and the like. Everything is in the best traditions of Russia”,- Ayvazov conveys in his letter.
He was also visited by his lawyer Mariia Eismont.
“I saw him, we talked with him for four hours, he is in good shape, he is interested in home, family”,- she said.
We remind you 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