Almost 40 kg of weight loss, beatings and lack of medical care: how Russians abuse Ukrainian political prisoners
Kyiv • UNN
The Russian occupiers continue to abuse Ukrainian political prisoners from Crimea, denying them proper medical care and using force against them, which has led to serious health consequences, such as weight loss of almost 40 kg and injuries from beatings.
The occupiers continue to abuse Ukrainian political prisoners from Crimea, whom they illegally convicted and transferred to the territory of Russia. The Russians systematically use force against them and do not provide proper medical care, which leads to serious health consequences. This is stated in a statement by the Presidential Mission in the ARC, UNN reports.
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Reportedly, as of early April:
- According to his lawyer, political prisoner Tofik Abdulgaziyevhas been diagnosed with tuberculosis, bilateral pneumonia, heart failure and a number of other complex diseases. He was recently transferred from the intensive care unit to the intensive care unit. According to his family, he is very exhausted and has lost almost 40 kg.
In May 2022, the occupation "court" issued a guilty verdict against Abdulgaziyev, illegally sentencing him to 12 years in a maximum security colony with the first five years in prison. In July 2023, the man was transferred to a prison in the Chelyabinsk region of the Russian Federation.
- political prisoner Asan Yanikov was beaten in a prison in volodymyr, russia. According to his sister, it became known that on April 6, during the inspection, two guards hit his head twice against the concrete after asking him to take his food from the cell. According to her, he did not provoke the prison staff and did not resist. The occupiers illegally convicted Yanikov in March 2023. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Yanikov's relatives and defense plan to file complaints about the beating to the Federal Penitentiary Service.
- 66-year-old Zekiryu Muratov with a third-group disability was transferred from a prison in Balashov, Saratov region of the Russian Federation, to colony No. 5 in Nizhny Novgorod, the political prisoner informed his daughter via the prison's Zonatelecom connection.
In the summer of 2021, in the pre-trial detention center, Zekiria contracted COVID-19, and was taken to the prison hospital in Rostov-on-Don in serious condition with bilateral pneumonia. Later, he suffered a hypertensive crisis. In July 2020, the occupiers illegally sentenced Muratov to 11 years in prison.
