Sunday, December 3, marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This day reminds all countries of the importance of creating decent living conditions for people with special health conditions. However, the Russian Federation does not adhere to these principles and, due to the occupation of Crimea in 2014, people with special needs also had to suffer.
Now, according to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, the FSB dungeons contain:
Zekirya Muratov – disability group 3
Oleksandr Syzykov – disability group 1
Timur Ibrahimov – disability group 3
Servet Gaziev – disability group 2
Amet Suleymanov – disability group 3
Tymur Yalkabov – disability group 3
These people are seriously ill. Due to inadequate conditions of detention in pre-trial detention centers and prisons, due to systemic ignoring of complaints about their well-being, and due to inadequate and untimely medical care, their health continues to deteriorate. And, unfortunately, we already have disastrous consequences when a 60-year-old political prisoner, who had a second group disability, Dzhemil Gafarov, died.
By these actions, the Russian Federation violates the rights of political prisoners to the healthcare access. Moreover, according to the legislation of the Russian Federation, seriously ill people should be released from custody, since human life is the highest value, the sentence should not be death.
We demand that the Russian Federation immediately release the above-mentioned persons and all other political prisoners, and also stop systematically violating human rights in the occupied Crimea.