Health of illegally convicted by Russia Dzhemil Gafarov worsens due to lack of medical care

The Ukrainian President's Representative Office in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea reported this. 

“The state of health of pensioner Dzhemil Gafarov, illegally sentenced to 13 years in prison, has deteriorated as a result of the occupiers' failure to provide him with the necessary medical care in the pre-trial detention center,” the agency quoted the prisoner's lawyer Emil Kurbedinov as saying.

Dzhemil Gafarov told his defense counsel that the Russian forces were not going to treat him and he was waiting for an illegal transfer to a colony in Russia: “It is not clear whether I will survive the transfer or not. How will I be transferred for months? It will be very difficult to travel.”

The wife of the illegally imprisoned man said that in 2017, before the fabricated criminal case, Dzhemil had an acute myocardial infarction, and was diagnosed with chronic renal failure with impaired kidney filtration. The political prisoner needs regular kidney dialysis, but it is impossible to do this in the pre-trial detention center.

On January 11 this year, a court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced five representatives of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people, Alim Karimov, Seyran Murtazi, Erfan Osmanov, Dzhemil Gafarov and Servet Gaziyev, to 13 years in prison on falsified charges of alleged terrorist activity and “attempted seizure of power.”