For more than a month, the family has not been able to find the Crimean Tatar who was taken away by security forces

On January 26, a search was conducted in the house of a resident of the Kirovskoye village, Ismail Shemshedinov. After that, the security forces took him away. Since then, his mother and family have not known where he is.

In her video message, the mother of the missing person, Elzara Abibullaev, said that on January 26, about 20 security officials arrived at their home, all of them wearing balaclavas. They took the equipment and took my son away in a paddy wagon. The woman went to local pre-trial detention centers and the FSB, but could not find Ismail Shemshedinov. According to her, no one told her where her son was and what his guilt was.

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