The list of Russians denying treatment to Crimean political prisoners has been made public

Specific individuals from among the representatives of the Russian authorities are directly involved. Thus, the ZMINA Human Rights Centre and the Crimean human rights group prepared a list of 22 Russian officials who violate the rights of political prisoners. This is reported by Ukraine Media Centre.

According to ZMINA project manager Viktoriya Nesterenko, the list of persons involved in the failure to provide medical care to political prisoners includes judges, prosecutors, heads of pre-trial detention centres and colonies, heads of medical services in occupied Crimea and Russia.

At the same time, Irina Sedova, a researcher of the Crimean Human Rights Group, noted that this particular list included officials who have a rank, for example, colonel of justice, colonel of internal service, or judges who have committed a large number of offences. However, she said, in reality the list of those involved in these offences is actually several hundred people.

In this particular list we have gathered those who, firstly, are not yet on the international sanctions lists. They have been gathered here on the principle that they were directly involved in not providing medical assistance. That is, the heads of medical units where they were supposed to treat prisoners, but deliberately did not," she explained.

The human rights activists noted that they plan to hand over the list of Russian criminals to the Ukrainian state authorities so that the prosecutor's office investigates these cases and opens criminal proceedings against these people. In addition, the list will be transferred to various international institutions to impose sanctions.

Recall that in early 2023, two Ukrainian political prisoners - Dzhemil Gafarov and Konstantin Shiring - died in Russian prisons due to lack of medical care. They had complex chronic diseases, their health condition was gradually deteriorating in the conditions of the pre-trial detention centre, but the administration of the pre-trial detention centre constantly refused hospitalisation and prohibited the transfer of medicines to them. The officials involved in their deaths were not held responsible.