~Russia illegally detains 25,000 Kremlin prisoners

According to the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, this is the number of civilians abducted by the Russian Federation.

The ZMINA Human Rights Centre has found that at least 21 prisoners require urgent medical care and may die unless they receive it. 

During the full-scale invasion, the National Police began investigating the enforced disappearance of 8,800 people. Russian Children's Ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova claims Russia has illegally abducted over 700,000 children from Ukraine.

The Media Initiative for Human Rights has identified about one hundred places where abducted civilians are held.

The Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Qırım) confirms 209 illegally imprisoned Ukrainian citizens, 126 of whom are Qırımtatarlar.

During the full-scale war, 3,135 Ukrainian citizens were returned to Ukraine, including 150 civilians.

Crimean prisoner Tofik Abdulgaziyev has been admitted to the intensive care unit of Specialised Tuberculosis Hospital No. 3 with an unknown diagnosis.

His wife, Aliye Kurtametova, told Crimean Solidarity.

"For a long time, there was no news about my husband. On March 7, I contacted the prison unit where he is being held and asked about him. They told me that he had been taken to a hospital in Chelyabinsk with a high temperature," said the prisoner's wife.

Kurtametova called all the hospitals and found him. Over the phone, doctors said that her husband was in serious condition and was in intensive care with intoxication. 

Earlier, the prisoner's lawyer reported that Abdulgaziyev had lost 15 kg and was complaining of pain in his joints. The Crimean Tatar cannot hold a spoon in his hands, tread with his foot or move normally.

"The prison and the hospital system of the Federal Penitentiary Service do not reveal the real picture of the patient's health. Tofik needs an independent examination to determine the true diagnosis. It is a matter of human life," said lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, who plans to file a complaint with the Russian authorities.

Before his illegal arrest, Tofik Abdulgaziyev was a Crimean Solidarity activist and a Crimean Childhood Project member. He organised events for the children of Crimean political prisoners.

The man was detained in March 2019 and sentenced to 12 years for allegedly participating in the Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir. Later, Russian security forces detained 23 people during mass searches in the temporarily occupied city of Simferopol (Aqmescit).

The Simferopol (Aqmescit) district 'court' has rejected the request of Eldar Kantimirov, who was illegally detained in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, to count his time in pre-trial detention as prison time.

Lawyer Rustem Kiamilev reported this to Crimean Solidarity. 

The administration of Dimitrovgrad prison in the Ulyanovsk region of Russia wrongly calculates Kantimirov's sentence. 

The prisoner's lawyer insisted that the time since his arrest and detention should be counted as part of his time in prison. It is the norm of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. But, according to the lawyer, the courts often misinterpret these rules. 

It will be recalled that on June 10, 2019, Russian security forces detained four Crimean Tatars on the temporarily occupied peninsula after a massive search. 

Before his arrest, Kantimirov had led a single picket against the oppression and discrimination of Crimean Tatars on ethnic and religious grounds. Earlier, his house had been searched, and he had been threatened and told to leave the peninsula. He was sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime colony for alleged terrorist activities. 

The so-called "Centre for Combating Extremism" in the temporarily occupied Crimea (Qırım) has issued an administrative report against the Eski Qırım community. The community is accused of keeping forbidden literature in the mosque. 

Crimean Solidarity reports.

Russian agent Kazyayev notes in the protocol that the Zubair Jami mosque in Old Crimea (Qırım) is connected to the religious community "Eski Qırım".

On the night of February 29, a collection of works by Said Nursi and Takyuddin al-Nabkhani, which had been placed on the "list of extremist materials" by a decision of the Russian courts, was allegedly found and confiscated there. 

The record was given to the head of the community, Idris Yurdamov. The man said he did not agree with the protocol and that the community "has nothing to do with the Zubair Jami mosque".

"The books do not belong to us. We have no idea how they ended up in the mosque," Yurdamov wrote.

During the occupation of Crimea, 60 people died as a result of Russian repression. Twenty-eight of them were Crimean Tatars. 

The Crimean Resource Centre reports this.

The victims were subjected to political repression, discrimination, terror and police terror. 

"Unfortunately, the de facto Kremlin-controlled Crimean authorities are only pretending to investigate these cases, even though according to the UN resolution... Russia is called the occupying power and is responsible for human rights in this territory," the Centre said in a statement.

Teymur Abdullayev, illegally sentenced to 16.5 years in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, was sent back to the punishment cell. The prisoner has spent more than two and a half years since the beginning of his sentence. 

Crimean Solidarity writes about this.

Before that, he had been in the punishment cell for February. Following complaints from his mother and lawyer, Teymur was transferred to a cell with strict detention conditions. He remained there for ten days.

Dilyara Abdullayeva found out that her son was back in the punishment cell after the colony refused to accept the parcel. It is currently unknown how long Abdullayev has been in the punishment cell.

The prisoner's brother, Uzeyir Abdullayev, who suffers from an acquired heart condition, is visited by colony staff every two hours. A note has been added to his file stating that he is "prone to escape".

According to the prisoner's mother, the administration is trying to put pressure on the whole family in this way.

It will be recalled that Teymur and Uzeyir Abdullayev were "sentenced" to 17 and 13 years, respectively. The brothers are serving their so-called 'punishment' in the colonies of the Russian city of Salavat.