A court in Russian-occupied Simferopol has ordered the head of the prison medical unit to provide information about medical care (if any) given to Dzhemil Gafarov, a political prisoner with a life-threatening medical condition. Even according to Russian legislation, 58-year-old Gafarov is much too ill to be held in detention, yet he remains imprisoned, with his lawyer constantly ignored or given evidently false information about Gafarov’s condition.
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Halya Coynash: Russia could kill Crimean Tatar imprisoned for civic activism
A man in a mask lights candles forming the Emblem of the Crimean Tatars as he commemorates the 76th anniversary of the deportation of the indigenous population of the Crimea by the Soviet Union, at the Independence Square in Kyiv on May 18, 2020. Crimea's Tatars commemorated 76 years since their deportation by Soviet dictator Stalin in 1944.
