Russia-controlled “Kyivsky district court of Simferopol” in occupied Crimea sent a citizen of Ukraine, a defendant in one of the “Hizb ut-Tahrir cases” Oleksandr Syzykov for compulsory inpatient psychiatric examination.
The representative office of the President of Ukraine in the ARC (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) reported this referring to Crimean lawyer Emil Kurbedinov.
“The occupation authorities are persecuting Oleksandr Syzykov for political reasons, using the notorious 205.5 Article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which recognizes Hizb ut-Tahrir as a terrorist organization,” the Ukrainian representative office in the ARC said on its Facebook page.
It is noted that Syzykov is visually impaired, he is completely blind, and only because of this, the FSB of the Russian Federation could not place him in a pretrial detention center, and he cannot be imprisoned by sentence.
“The team of lawyers has well-founded fears that they want to declare Oleksandr insane and thus imprison him, placing him on compulsory psychiatric treatment for many years. Punitive psychiatry, which we have been talking about for many years, may begin to work in full force with regard to Syzykov Oleksandr, and open the door for new methods of repression,” lawyer Kurbedinov said in the publication.
According to Tamila Tasheva, Deputy Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine will do everything possible to save Syzykov from punitive psychiatry.
