According to the journalist’s lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, after Remzi Bekirov was sent to the colony in early August this year, the man was several times unreasonably placed in the punitive isolation cell, forbidden to write letters and call his family.
In addition, the family of the political prisoner can not come to see him, as he is more than 4 thousand kilometres away from his home. ‘The Crimean Tatar activist also tried to get the term of his transfer counted as a prison term – so he could be in the colony as early as March this year. However, the 2nd Eastern District Military Court of Chita, to which Remzi Bekirov’s lawsuit was addressed, did not send a response and did not take a decision on the recalculation of the term,’ – the activists reported.
We shall remind you that on 27 March 2019, Russian law enforcers in the occupied Crimea conducted mass searches in 26 Crimean Tatar homes. As a result, 20 people were detained, suspected of involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organisation banned in Russia.
Subsequently, the arrests of political prisoners were repeatedly extended, and some of them have already been sentenced. For example, Remzi Bekirov was sentenced by a Russian court to 19 years in prison. He must serve the first 5 years in prison, and the rest of the time – in a strict regime penal colony with a restriction of 1 year 6 months.