Crimean journalist Remzi Bekirov, convicted in Russia, is being held in Krasnoyarsk detention center
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Remzi Bekirov, a Crimean journalist convicted by the Russian Federation, is being held in a detention center in Krasnoyarsk. He was denied a transfer closer to home, having previously been sentenced to 19 years in prison on charges of involvement in a banned party.
Crimean journalist Remzi Bekirov, convicted by the Russian Federation, is being held in a pre-trial detention center in Krasnoyarsk. Bekirov's wife Khalidi told Crimean Solidarity about it, Radio Liberty reports UNN.
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She received information about her husband's whereabouts from the head of the Main Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Krasnoyarsk Territory of the Russian Federation.
Earlier, the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation refused to transfer Remzi Bekirov to a colony closer to home. He wanted to serve his remaining sentence in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation.
Remzi Bekirov is a citizen journalist who has been monitoring searches and trials in politically motivated cases against Crimean residents.
Russian security forces detained him in March 2019, accusing him of involvement in the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir party in Russia. In March 2022, a Russian court sentenced Bekirov to 19 years in prison.
