“ZMINA” and “Crimean Human Rights Group” announce 22 representatives of the occupation authorities in Crimea denying treatment to political prisoners

The Human Rights Centre ZMINA and the Crimean Human Rights Group published a list of representatives of the occupation authorities in Crimea who refuse to treat Crimean political prisoners.

This was reported by the Human Rights Centre “ZMINA” during a press conference in Kyiv.

“We have identified 22 officials who are criminals: judges, prosecutors, ombudsmen, heads of prisons and heads of medical institutions under the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service,” said ZMINA project manager Victoria Nesterenko.

Human rights activists report that there are 21 political prisoners in critical health conditions in Russian prisons.

Viktoriia Nesterenko recalls that in early 2023, two Ukrainian political prisoners, Dzhemil Gafarov and Kostiantyn Shyring, died in Russian prisons due to the lack of medical care.

The researchers also established the involvement of Pavlenko Pavel Vladimirovich, the head of the Federal State Healthcare Institution ‘Medical and Sanitary Unit No. 91’, in the death of Dzhemil Gafarov.

Human rights activists emphasise that the failure to provide medical care to people in detention can be tantamount to torture.

The full list of Russian criminals is available here.

As reported by the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, Russia illegally detains about 25,000 Ukrainian civilians.

Author: Maria Patoka

Translator: Oleksandra Sobol

Source: Svidomi