The FSIN refused to tell the wife of a Crimean Tatar political prisoner where he was transferred

They refuse to tell the wife of Crimean Tatar journalist Remzi Bekirov, sentenced to 19 years, to which colony her husband is being transferred.

“Persons who have access to personal data are obliged not to disclose to third parties or distribute information without the consent of the subject of personal data. Considering that the consent of this person [Remzi Bekirov] to PKU T-2 of the State Penitentiary Service for the Krasnoyarsk Territory is absent, it is not possible to provide the information you requested,” they answered the wife of the prisoner in prison No. 2 in Yeniseisk.

The day before it became known that Remzi Bekirov was transferred from prison No. 2 in Yeniseisk. Previously, the Federal Penitentiary Service refused to transfer him to a colony closer to his home in the Rostov region or Stavropol region.

Remzi Bekirov is a citizen journalist, an activist of Crimean Solidarity, a correspondent for the online publication Grani.ru. The Crimean Tatar has three minor children. After 2014, he covered repression on the peninsula.

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