Imprisoned Crimean journalist remains without medication for heart failure for three months
Kyiv • UNN
Amet Suleymanov, an imprisoned Crimean journalist, has been without vital heart medication for three months after his wife's package was not delivered to his prison in Russia. Without this medication, his health is at risk.
Russian-imprisoned Crimean civilian journalist Amet Suleymanov, who suffers from arterial and mitral heart failure, has been without appropriate medicines for three months now - a parcel from his wife with the necessary medicines was not delivered to prison No. 2 in the Vladimir region of the Russian Federation. This was reported by the public association "Crimean Solidarity", UNN reports.
As Suleymanov's wife Lilya Lyumanova told the activists, immediately after her husband's whereabouts became known, she collected a parcel with a two-month supply of medicines, syringes and pills. But in late November, Lilya Lyumanova received the parcel back.
"I tracked the entire path of this parcel. The postman tried to deliver it to its destination, and then there was a report of unsuccessful delivery. ... All these medicines are not even treatment, but support for his (Amet Suleymanov's) heart. I do not know why the parcels were not accepted. And I am even more worried about Amet's health when I look at the medicines he has lost", - "Crimean Solidarity" quotes Lyumanova.
According to Krym.Realii, the reasons for the refusal to hand over the parcel are not specified, and the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service also does not comment on the situation.
In 2021, a Russian court sentenced Amet Suleymanov to 12 years in prison in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case.
Suleimanov had been under house arrest for three years due to his health condition. The journalist suffers from arterial and mitral heart failure, he urgently needs to undergo surgery to replace his heart valve.
On April 6 this year, Amet Suleymanov was taken into custody and taken to a detention center. According to the latest information from his lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, Suleymanov suffers from constant headaches and heartaches.
