Crimean Tatar political prisoner spoke about violence in the Rostov pre-trial detention center

In SIZO-1 in Rostov, guards used violence against prisoners. The victim, among others, Crimean Tatar Ekrem Krosh, told lawyer Alexey Ladin about this.

The victim suggested that this could have happened due to the seizure of the detention center by prisoners on June 16. Then six prisoners took two FSIN employees hostage. During the storming of the building, five invaders were killed and one was seriously wounded.

Earlier, a Crimean Tatar spoke about torture and abuse of prisoners in pre-trial detention center No. 2 in Simferopol. There, the arrested people were beaten, including on the head, and a stun gun was used on them. They were also forced to repeat the Russian anthem by heart every day. When Krosh refused to sing the Russian anthem, they started beating him. At the same time, the guards were drunk. After Ekrem Krosh wrote a complaint to the head of the pre-trial detention center, Nikolai Ryabov, he called him into his office and hit him twice in the face, leaving a bruise.

The Crimean Tatar is accused of participating in the Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir, which was recognized by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation as a “terrorist organization.” At the same time, it operates freely on the territory of Ukraine and most countries of the world. According to human rights activists, members of the organization are being persecuted not for preparing a coup and terrorism, but for public actions against political repression in Crimea and criticism of the Russian authorities.

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