The FSIN refuses to transfer Crimean Tatar political prisoner-journalist Remzi Bekirov to a colony closer to home. He was sentenced to 19 years and transported to prison No. 2 of Yeniseisk, Krasnoyarsk Territory.
The FSIN refused to transfer me to a colony in the Rostov region and the Stavropol region.
The Crimean Tatar activist also said that for lunch they are given only pork, and he skips this meal. Due to the fact that the limit on purchases in the prison store was recently increased, he can dine on something else from the prison store, most often it is Doshirak noodles.
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.
In 2022, Bekirov was sentenced to 19 years in prison on charges of involvement in the Islamic political party Hizb ut-Tahrir. It is recognized as terrorist in Russia, but at the same time it operates absolutely legally in Ukraine, European countries and the world.
