58-year-old Edem Bekirov has been promised house arrest in return for ‘confessing’ to a crime he didn’t commit and could not possibly have committed. Since the Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s life is being placed in real danger by his ongoing imprisonment, the FSB are effectively using his physical state and the intolerable conditions of the SIZO [remand prison] as bargaining tools.
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Halya Coynash: Russia offers dangerously ill Crimean Tatar his life for a ‘confession’
This screenshot from TSN video shows Crimean Tatar activist Edem Bekirov who had in January 2018 undergone heart surgery.
