Ukrainian political prisoner, Crimean Tatar Yashar Shikhametov, who is placed in a pretrial detention center in the temporarily occupied Crimea, requires urgent medical examination and treatment, said Liudmyla Denisova, human rights commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada.
“He has aggravated problems with his heart, liver and stomach. In addition, against the background of chronic hypertension, Yashar constantly suffers from severe pain in the kidneys. The examination planned for June 2021 in a specialized medical institution did not take place. Administration of detention facility No. 1 of the city of Simferopol, where our fellow citizen is being held, ignores his applications for medical assistance,” the Ombudswoman wrote on her Facebook page.
Denisova stressed that the failure to provide the necessary medical care to the Ukrainian by the administration of the detention facility is a gross violation of Article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, equates to torture and inhuman treatment, and Article 22 of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, approved by the Economic and Social Council of the UN.
“I appeal to Ombudswoman for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova with a demand to urgently provide Yashar Shikhametov with a medical examination and provide the necessary medical assistance with specialized treatment in a specialized medical institution,” she stressed.
Denisova also called on the international community to respond to the facts of violation of Shikhametov’s rights and to take all possible measures to end torture against Ukrainian citizens in places of detention in the temporarily occupied Crimea and the Russian Federation.
