A Russian court in 2019 sentenced Teymur Abdullayev to 17 years’ imprisonment, without any crime, and now Russian prison staff are subjecting the 46-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner to effective torture by failing to provide proper medical care and holding him in a SHIZO, or punishment cell. His mother, a doctor, is seriously concerned by his condition, and suspects that he is suffering from inflammatory cardiomyopathy, or an inflammation of the heart muscle, as a result of having contracted Covid-19 in November 2020. He should have been placed in a medical unit back then, but was instead simply returned to the SHIZO and his general state of health has accordingly deteriorated still further.
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This undated photo shows Crimean Tatar political prisoner Teymur Abdullayev. Abdullayev and his brother Uzeir were among five Crimean Tatars arrested by Russian occupational authorities on Oct. 12, 2016, on charges related solely to their faith, human rights activists say.
