Crimean Tatar journalist transported 9,000 kilometers from home

Rustem Sheykhaliev, sentenced to 14 years, was delivered to the penal colony of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Amur Region from the Yeniseisk prison in Krasnoyarsk Krai. Previously, he was 6,000 kilometers from home, but now he is 9,000.

“I can’t even imagine how I can get to him. It’s very difficult both physically and financially. I can’t call it anything other than exile – my husband was 6,000 kilometers away, now he’s almost 9,000,” shared the prisoner’s wife, Surie Sheykhametova.

Earlier, Sheykhaliev had repeatedly complained to the prison doctor about leg pain and varicose veins, but the doctor said that he had “nothing serious.” The prisoner also reported headaches and chest pains.

In 2022, Rustem Sheykhaliyev was sentenced to 14 years on charges of terrorist activity and attempted seizure of power. He pleaded not guilty and considers his prosecution politically motivated, as he criticized the Russian and Crimean authorities after the peninsula's annexation to Russia. According to lawyer Lili Gemedzhi, the secret witnesses in the case, who spoke under pseudonyms, were not acquainted with the defendant. The defense unsuccessfully tried to prove the groundlessness of the charges.

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