Two residents of Feodosia were sentenced by the occupation court in Crimea on fictitious charges

Two residents of Kefe (Feodosia) received sentences of 10 and 16 years in prison on fictitious charges of attempted murder of pro-Kremlin blogger Oleksandr Talipov.

According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, the verdict was reported by the press service of the Russian occupation investigative committee. According to the investigation, from December 2022 to June 2023, the Ukrainian special services allegedly "persuaded the resident of Kefe to cooperate through a messenger".

"To check the candidate, the curators suggested that he set fire to any car with the symbols of the letter "Z", which was done on the night of February 22, 2023," the statement said.

Investigators claim that the accused involved his friend in this activity, and together they allegedly planned to "eliminate the public figure." The first attempt in June 2023 was unsuccessful - the remote-controlled device did not work. However, in the evening of July 12, 2023, during a second attempt, a moped exploded in the yard of a house in Kefe, where an improvised explosive device was installed.

Earlier, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets said that at least 41 of the 218 illegally convicted Crimean political prisoners are currently in need of immediate medical care, 31 of whom are Crimean Tatars.

According to the press service of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, in the first 9 months of 2024, Russian security forces placed Crimean political prisoners in punishment isolators, special units, and solitary confinement at least 16 times. The practice of placing Crimean political prisoners in punishment cells is already widespread and is not surprising. This trend began to be actively manifested in 2020. The occupiers continue to put pressure on our compatriots to "break" and subdue them.

Also, according to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, at least 177 Ukrainian prisoners died in Russian captivity after the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to Victoria Tsymbalyuk, a representative of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, the more time prisoners of war spend in Russian prisons, the closer they are to death. She also noted that due to the lack of international control, the actual number of deaths in Russian prisons is likely to be much higher.

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